Part-time Activities Coordinator

Part-time Activities Coordinator. Oak Springs Care Home

• Hourly rate: £12.40 per hour
• Contract: 13 hours per week
• Shift pattern: 9am – 4pm Thursdays and Fridays

Are you bursting with creativity and passion for bringing joy to others Oak Springs Care Home is looking for a dynamic Activities Coordinator to create engaging fun and meaningful experiences for our residents.

Nestled in the heart of Wavertree Oak Springs is a luxury purpose-built care home that offers residential respite and dementia care in a vibrant and supportive environment. Our 74-bedded home is designed to promote well-being featuring music rooms a beauty salon relaxing lounges and peaceful courtyards. We believe in celebrating life not just preserving it.

Your Role – Make Every Day Special

As an Activities Coordinator you'll be the creative heart of our home crafting an exciting and varied daily activity programme tailored to our residents’ interests. Whether it’s music film screenings arts and crafts fitness sessions gardening games quizzes pamper days or trips out you will bring energy enthusiasm and imagination to every event.

What We’re Looking For

• Creative and Organised: You have a knack for planning and delivering engaging activities.
• People-Focused: You build strong relationships and adapt activities to suit different personalities and needs.
• Passionate and Positive: Your enthusiasm is contagious and you love making people smile.
• Flexible and Adaptable: You’re happy to switch things up and even support outings or special events outside regular hours.
• Experience in Care (Desirable): If you’ve worked with older adults or in a care home setting before that’s a big plus.

Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits:

• Free uniform. Free Meals*. Free DBS.
• Discounts on the high street* - with retailers like Asda Costa and Argos
• Refer-a-Friend - and get a £250 bonus
• Flexible pay* - choose when you are paid and get money management tips too
• Free wellbeing programme - helping you look after your physical and mental health
• Employee recognition scheme - we recognise and reward great work
• Pension scheme - helping you plan for your retirement
• In-house training - on-going face-to-face training tailored to you
• Career opportunities - The chance to ‘make your mark’ and play a key role

*Overtime is paid for working over fulltime hours. Free meals are given if working over an 8 hour shift and are subject to terms and conditions. Discounts are accessed using our ‘Reward Me’ app. Flexible pay is available via ‘WAGESTREAM’.

What are we looking for

• Applicants will be diligent creative organised and committed to enhancing the quality of life of residents by providing activities which will interest inspire motivate and support them in their daily lives.
• Compassion patience and positivity are just some of the key values and personal qualities required for this post whilst a flexible approach to work is essential.
• Experience of working with an elderly client group and/or working within a care home environment would also be highly advantageous as would the ability to cover outings or special events outside of normal working hours as required.

Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates LGBTQ as well as non-binary candidates and those with experience of mental health.