Senior Activities Coordinator
Sandhills Court Care Home, Exeter Road, Scunthorpe, DN15 7AS
Permanent Contract – 30 hours per week – Alternate Weekends Required – £12.85–£13.85 per hour dependent on experience – We make health happen.
You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen By
- Running morning and afternoon activity sessions. Activities are tailored to our residents but can include musical acts, days out, exercise classes, visitors from the community, arts and crafts, the possibilities are endless.
- Producing and updating an activity planner for the home, working within a set activities budget.
- Supporting our residents and encouraging them to participate in activities.
- Organising birthday surprises for our residents.
- Ensuring everything is organised for planned activities, events, performers and coordinating days out.
- Liaising with external companies and performers from the local community to organise days out/events at the home.
- Assisting with breakfast, lunch and dinner duties when necessary.
- Organising one‑to‑ones with our residents, which might involve reminiscing tools, puzzles, reading or just a cup of tea and a chat.
- Updating paperwork, care plans, activity notes and managing emails.
- Supporting the home with their social media channels as required.
Key Skills / Qualifications Needed For This Role
You’re a creative thinker with plenty of ideas, who can also manage budgets and maintain paperwork, effectively managing priorities as they arise. You’re interested in caring for others, sharing your sense of humour, and spreading your infectious enthusiasm for making people’s lives better. Whether it’s motivating colleagues to support each activity or event, making links in the local area, or getting friends and family involved, you’ll pack much community spirit into everything you do.
Benefits
- My Healthcare – Quick, easy access to support, advice and treatment for a variety of health‑related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support – all available via one phone number 24/7.
- Annual allowance redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, approximately £350.
- Sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, in addition to statutory sick pay.
- Free meal on every shift.
- 28 days holiday.
- Long service rewards such as ecards, extra holidays and money.
- Interest‑free annual travel loan for public transport season tickets.
- Wagestream – early access to up to 40% of earned wages within minutes.
- Range of Bupa pension plans.
- Parental leave – schemes for adoption, birth parents and co‑parents.
- Menopause Plan – specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health.
- Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK.
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to Be you at Bupa, champion diversity and understand the importance of our people representing the communities we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type
Part time
Job Area
Locations: Sandhills Court
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