Activities Co-ordinator

Burntwood - Bracken House

Are you looking for a new job opportunity? Do you have experience as an activities co-ordinator?

Nexxus Care are recruiting an activities co-ordinator in our residential home in Tamworth. You will be responsible for planning and creating activity plans for all of our residents, to meet their needs and wishes. We are looking for someone who has lots of energy, excellent communication skills and has a genuine passion for meeting our resident’s physical, social and emotional needs, with activities such as: Light exercise, puzzles, arts and crafts, sing-a-longs, days out, sensory and lots more!

As well as a competitive pay structure, Nexxus Care offer a wide range of benefits such as:

• Refer a friend scheme 
• Blue Light Card membership – This means you’ll get discounts from loads of high street store including JD Sports, New Look, River Island and more! You can also save money on your holidays!
• Mend Your motors discount warranty & AA membership discount – In case of those unexpected car troubles
• Access to free counselling service – We want to ensure that you’re looked after in every way possible
• Paid training and funded diploma – T&C’s apply
• Funded DBS – T&C’s apply
• Welcome pack – Which includes: hand sanitisers, lip balm, hand cream, face coverings and all of your PPE
• Regular COVID testing, and you’ll also be given the opportunity to receive your COVID vaccine

Qualities were looking for:

• Excellent communication skills – Do you find it easy to make conversations with people, and can you get people motivated?
• Trustworthy and reliable – Are you punctual? Can you manage your time well?
• Resilience? – Care is extremely rewarding, but can you handle the challenges as well as the fulfilment
• Job fulfilment – We want you to enjoy your role. We want an activities co-ordinator who has a real passion for people
• Initiative and creativity – Can you create activity plans to meet everyone’s needs, as well as being fun and enjoyable?

Nexxus care are a Staffordshire County Council owned company and our goal is to provide outstanding domiciliary, reablement, extra care and residential support to our clients.

For our customers, this means that we will:

Provide support that gives our service users as much control as possible over their decisions, the service they receive, and supporting them to live the life they choose, as well as providing care and support that will help them to maintain their dignity at all times.