RCH Care Homes
Maternity Cover - Lifestyle Lead
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Maidstone Care Centre Job Opportunity
Maidstone Care Centre is seeking a Lifestyle-Activity Lead on a 12-month fixed contract to cover Maternity leave. This role is designed to join their friendly team to enhance the lived experience of their residents.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and Implementation: To plan, organise, promote, and implement meaningful, enjoyable, engaging, and stimulating activities for all residents in line with principles, policies, procedures, and best practice guidelines for relationship-centered care, clinical care, and dementia care.
- Leadership: Motivate, inspire, and mobilise team members to be involved and engaged in the provision of stimulating activities within the resident’s environment.
- Activity Delivery: Spend 80% of their time delivering vibrant activities to all the residents across all units in the home.
- Communication: Lead on the design, development, and implementation of the home newsletter that reports on the home’s events and activities of interest.
- Record Keeping: Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date.
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Requirements
Qualifications/Education
- NVQ HSC level 3 or QCF HSC award 3 (not essential)
Experience
- Proven track record of organising, coordinating, motivating others.
- Experience of organising and scheduling programmes of events or activities.
- Experience of working and/or engaging with older people (both living with and without Dementia).
- Experience delivering high-quality relationship-centered care.
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Skills/Knowledge
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and clinical skills.
- Knowledge of and competence in core Microsoft Office applications.
- Passionate and keen to develop new skills.
- Listening skills.
- Data management (for record keeping and review).
- Ability to organise efficiently and prioritise workloads whilst under pressure.
Personal Qualities
- Reliable, flexible, adaptable, punctual.
- Will and able to work outside the standard work hours.
- Approachable and friendly.
- Positive in outlook and manner.
- Self-motivated.
- Able to promote a professional image for the company at all times.
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