lifestyle Lead

Romford Care Centre are looking for a Lifestyle-Activity lead to join their friendly team to enhance the lived experience of our residents. The role is leading a lifestyle lead, to ensure meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the home for all residents in line with principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines for relationship centered care, clinical care and dementia care. The Lifestyle lead will motivate, inspire and mobilise team members in the home to be involved and engaged in the provision of stimulating activities within the resident’s environment. They will spend 80% of their time delivering vibrant activities to all the residents across all the units in the home To plan organise, promote and implement a meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities programme, based on relationship centred care principals Motivate, inspire and mobilise other care team members within the home Deliver 80% of their working time on vibrant and meaningful activities across all units of the home with targeted programmes that meet the needs of the resident groups such as those who live in residential communities, those living with dementia and those who are bed bound and are not able to easily participate in the home programme. Lead on the design, development and implementation of the home newsletter that reports on the home’s events and activities of interest Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date Qualifications/Education NVQ HSC level 3 or QCF HSC award 3 ~ (not essential) Experience Proven track record of organising, coordinating, motivating other 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 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