Activity Coordinator
Location: Westcombe Park Care Home, 112a Westcombe Park, Road, Blackheath, London SE3 7RZ
Contract: Permanent – Part Time
Hours: 23 hours per week – (Saturday and Sunday and one day during the week.)
Salary: £12.75 to £13.75 per hour, depending on experience
CQC rating: Good
Carehome.co.uk rating: 9.6 / 10
Westcombe Park is a modern care home situated in a pleasant leafy neighbourhood of south‑east London. It warmly welcomes residents in need of nursing or residential care and also provides respite and convalescence care. The home is close to local transport links and a few minutes’ drive from the A2. It has a bus route stopping directly outside, making visiting easier and is only a few minutes’ walk to local amenities, shops and the local bank. Staff take great care to focus on the person; residents feel at home with an individually appropriate balance of care and independence.
The chefs create well‑crafted menus with fresh ingredients and cater for all ethnicity groups. Staff discuss personal preferences and dietary needs with residents. The home fosters a sense of community; staff organise activities around residents’ interests, from hobbies to new pursuits.
What You’ll Do
You’ll help make health happen by:
- Running morning and afternoon activity sessions.
- Producing and updating an activity planner for the home, working to a set activities budget.
- Organising birthday surprises for residents.
- Liaising with external companies and performers to organise days out/events.
- Organising one‑to‑one sessions with residents (reminiscing tools, puzzles, reading or a cup of tea and a chat).
- Supporting the home’s social media channels as required.
Key Skills & Qualifications
You’re a creative thinker with plenty of ideas, can manage budgets and maintain paperwork, effectively managing priorities as they arise. You want to make a real difference, are interested in caring for others and share your sense of humour and enthusiasm for making people’s lives better.
Benefits
- My Healthcare – Free access to 24/7 support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health‑related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support.
- Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350.
- Wagestream – Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
- 28 days holiday.
- We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
- Long service – For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
- Free meal on every shift.
- Interest‑free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
- We offer a range of Bupa pension plans – find out more on our career site.
- Parental leave – We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents – find out more on our career site.
- 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.
Legal & EEO Statements
- Please note, this role is not at or above RQF Level 3 and is not included under the UK’s Points Based Immigration System for sponsorship by an employer.
- 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.
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