Apprentice Activities And Wellbeing Project Coordinator

About the role

Activities Apprentice 🚀

Are you ready to make a real difference and bring joy to people's lives? ✨ We're looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team as an Activities Apprentice. This is your chance to learn, grow, and create memorable experiences!

What you'll be doing (with awesome guidance!):

• Dream up and deliver fun! 🎨 Plan, prepare, and help lead exciting individual and group activities.
• Spark creativity! 💡 Develop cool, stimulating opportunities based on what our residents love.
• Be the life of the party! 🎉 Support a range of activities like arts, crafts, music, games, gardening, and gentle movement.
• Ignite new passions! 🔥 Help residents keep doing what they enjoy and discover new hobbies.
• Embrace the unexpected! 🌟 Support spontaneous moments and meaningful everyday experiences, not just schedules.
• Make it inclusive! 🤝 Adapt activities so everyone, no matter their ability, can join in the fun.
• Celebrate the good times! 🥳 Help create awesome seasonal events, parties, and special occasions.
• Explore the community! 🚶‍♀️ Assist with outings and activities happening around town.
• Bring the outside in! 🎤 Help arrange for entertainers and community groups to visit.

What you'll gain:

• Learn on the job! 📚 You'll get hands-on experience while working towards a qualification.
• Specialised training! 🧠 Access training in crucial areas like care, dementia awareness, and wellbeing to ensure your work is safe, respectful, and person-led.
• Project management skills! 📈 Develop skills in planning, communication, organisation, time management, problem-solving, and driving continuous improvement.
• Essential knowledge! 🛡️ Undertake vital Chapel House Care training in safeguarding, dementia awareness, health & safety, first aid, infection control, equality, diversity, inclusion, mental capacity, and person-centred practice.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now! 💪

Key responsibilities

• Plan, prepare and help deliver individual and group activities.
• Develop creative and stimulating opportunities based on residents' interests.
• Support arts, crafts, music, reminiscence, sensory activities, gardening, games, gentle movement and other wellbeing opportunities.
• Help residents maintain existing interests and try new experiences.
• Adapt activities so that people with different physical, sensory and cognitive abilities can participate.

Entry requirements

GCSE in: (English (grade A*-C/ 4-9), Maths (grade A*-C/ 4-9))