Wellbeing Manager

Job Title: Wellbeing Manager

Location: Christchurch, Dorset

Salary: Up to £13.91 per hour

Job type: Full Time, Permanent, 40 Hours Per Week

About Us:

Fairmile Grange excels in providing the finest care, comfort, companionship, and expertise across all five types of elderly care: dementia, nursing, residential, respite, and palliative care.

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that meets our values of being family-focused, empowering, compassionate, and joyful for both our residents and staff. Our passionate teams are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our residents and ensuring that your loved ones lead independent and fulfilling lives.

About the Wellbeing Manager:

We are looking for an experienced, creative and professional Wellbeing Manager to join our wonderful Fairmile Grange Care Home in Christchurch.

You will be responsible for taking overall responsibility for the recreational, therapeutic and social aspects of a varied and appropriate programme of activities for our residents, ensuring that it is based around their needs, wishes and desires to enable them to live healthier, more independent and fulfilling lives.

You will be responsible for managing a small team of Wellbeing Assistants and will work with them to help our residents maintain active and independent lives through the creation and delivery of group and individualised activity plans based on their interests, abilities and life experience.

Key responsibilities of the Wellbeing Manager:

• Working under the direction of the home manager and in partnership with the home’s clinical lead, and the care team, to facilitate and support the completion of Biographies and promote their use by all colleagues to better understand our residents.
• Liaise with residents, relatives, friends and other colleagues to gain a full knowledge of the resident’s likes, dislikes, interests, abilities and difficulties.
• Use your skills to encourage conversation and act as an educator within the home and the wider community to promote activity, wellbeing and a dignified lifestyle.
• To help residents to keep mobile and to contribute to moving and handling using the correct techniques as well as following policies and procedures regarding falls management.
• To provide a daily program which incorporates movement and exercise in groups and for individuals at particular risk of falls.
• Communicate events and opportunities through regular newsletters and other methods throughout the home.
• Work closely with the home manager and care teams to ensure key colleagues are fully informed of the Wellbeing team’s activity schedules for residents.
• To liaise with the senior person in charge of the home on a daily basis. Attend daily 10@10 meetings with other Heads of Departments.
• Explore the most appropriate methods and resources for meeting activity needs including group events, individual sessions, involving internal, external and community-based resources.
• Develop links with local and national organisations to enhance the wellbeing offer at Fairmile Grange.
• Maintain and develop existing programs such as our memory clinic, relative groups, Church services etc which promote involvement of the local community.

Please note this is not an exhaustive list and therefore other duties and responsibilities will be involved within the role.

Skills and experience you need as a Wellbeing Manager:

• Experience of working with vulnerable adults
• Experience of working in a position of responsibility requiring the use of own initiative
• Customer service experience
• Ability to actively communicate
• Experience of organising an activities programme
• The ability to compile activity care plans for residents
• Ability to communicate on the telephone
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written skills
• Able to return information and carry out instructions accurately
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Able to work with residents to ensure they have fulfilling lives
• Able to prioritise workload
• Able to use own initiative
• IT literate and able to use social media
• Able to assess risk and construct appropriate risk assessments

Benefits:

• Salary up to £13.91 per hour
• 28 days annual leave per annum inclusive of bank holidays
• Paid breaks and Free uniform
• Free meals whilst on shift
• Workplace pension scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Career Progression Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Refer a Friend: Our refer a friend scheme gives employees the opportunity to earn up to £500. £50 awarded after a friend’s successful first day of employment and £450 on successful completion of probation

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Activities Coordinator, Activities Organiser, Events Assistant, Events Coordinator, Wellbeing Officer, Wellbeing Support, Social Care, Social Support Assistant, Care Assistant, Support Worker may also be considered for this role.