Lifestyle & Wellbeing Area Lead

Job Title: Lifestyle & Wellbeing Area Lead

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Allocated homes (Travel to homes in Bucks as allocated)

Salary: £23,500 raising to £28,180 after a 6-month successful probationary period

About the Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic care ambassador who is passionate about promoting independency and encouraging quality of life. This is an exciting opportunity to participate in the wellbeing and lifestyle for vulnerable adults.

You will support, engage, motivate, and have an influential impact on a resident’s life within the services we provide. Supporting our residents to remain stimulated and achieving goals they never thought they could achieve!

This role will include lots of fun, engagement, and creativeness. You will need to have an interest in supporting and enabling others, and a positive and kind nature.

You’ll be a key part of the team ensuring each service has an outstanding activity schedule planned daily/weekly/monthly and you will ensure this is implemented within our homes with the residents’ best interests always at the forefront of what you do.

What we need from you:

• Ability to engage and provide fun and exciting environments for our residents and care teams

• Support, arrange, organise, activities, events, days out and special occasions

• Adapt activities dependant on the individuals needs

• Supporting and encouraging residents to partake in actives and events

• Have a positive influence within the care staff and management teams within the homes

• Being initiative and suggesting new ideas for the activities team to implement across all homes

• Have a person-centred approach to all residents likes, dislikes and preferences

• Regular engagement with family reviews to enable person centred activities for individual residents to be planned

• Ability to record and evidence all activities, plans and arrangements carried out within the homes

Desirable:

• Experience of working in the health and social care industry in a similar role

• Experience of organising activities for adults including Dementia Care

• Good record keeping skills

• Excellent verbal, written communication, IT and presentation skills.

What you will receive from us

• A generous holiday entitlement, which increases after 3 years’ service!

• Lifestyle discount vouchers, including money off holidays, food, fashion, and sport

• lifetime benefits; Life assurance, pension

• Support and Career development

• Excellent company culture

About Us

Established since 1992, we are a charity and not-for-profit organisation that provides first class care and support for older people and adults with learning disabilities. Today, we have over 1,300 staff supporting over 1,100 residents at services across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Milton Keynes. Come and join a great team!

As a care provider we have a duty of care to our services users and employees to ensure we operate in a safe environment. Whilst some vaccination programmes may not be mandatory, due to the nature of our work, we actively encouraged employees to take reasonable precautionary steps to protect themselves and others.

From time to time, we may require you to take part in other mandatory health testing and health vaccination programmes.

All Fremantle staff must understand and actively participate in the Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity policies and procedures to ensure that people who use services, other staff and stakeholders are safe and respected in Fremantle services.

If you wish to gain any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the recruitment team on 0333 400 1020.