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Activities Coordinator

Location: Uplands, Fareham 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week  

Salary Details: £12.94 per hour

We have an exciting opportunity for someone who is dedicated, passionate and driven to join our team at Uplands, Fareham. 

The role is to work under the supervision of the management team, providing vocational, educational and recreational activities for the service users in the unit and via community access. 

The successful candidate will have previous experience of working within a care environment and the proven ability to develop and organise a range of activities for Patients

Rewards & Benefits:

Up to 28 Days Holiday
Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff on a variety of topics for self-development of your career
Free DBS Check
Stakeholder Pension
Free Employee Assistance Programme
Annual Employee Awards Evening
Employee Recognition Schemes
CareTech Foundation - Opportunity to apply for family and friend’s grantsMain duties and responsibilities:

To work with individuals across the unit to enable them to develop their domestic, self-care, social work or leisure skills as appropriate for each individual 
To feedback individuals’ engagement and progress to the appropriate occupational therapist or other multi-disciplinary team member as and when requested to do so.
To take responsibility for planning and facilitating specific therapeutic groups under supervision 
To comply with various departmental systems of record keeping, security audits and data collection.
To take the initiative in seeking new information, making use of departmental resources, internet etc., and undertaking training where possible in order to meet learning needs and enhance the activity role.
Comply with the Mental capacity act related to job role and service requirements.This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties following appropriate discussion with their line manager.

Who we are:

The CareTech Group; established in 1994, and is one of the largest providers of specialist social care services supporting 5000 adults with a wide range of needs in more than 300 services across the UK. Committed to the highest standards of care and governance, we provide innovative care pathways for vulnerable people to live in community settings. We support people to take control of their lives – this could be finding employment, having an active social life, learning new skills or building self-confidence.  

CareTech Community Services are proud to inform you that they are a “Disability Confident Leader”.

Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure prior to commencement of employment, the disclosure expense will be met by the employer.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to contact every applicant. We will be in touch 7-10 days after receipt of your CV if progressing your application to the next stage. 

* Some of our roles require male or female employees only, where this is indicated it is a genuine occupational requirement, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES

The Caretech Group is a Sponsored Employer but our sponsorship programme is currently full. Please only apply if you have an existing right-to-work in the UK that doesn’t require sponsorship and you are not currently under an existing sponsorship