Activities Support Coordinator

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Permanent, Part Time (16 hours per week)

Pay £24, 664 per annum pro rota plus brilliant benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong

A fabulous opportunity for you to join our awesome team. We support our brilliant customers who have varying mental health and autistic support needs over the age of 18. They live in self-contained flats within 2 buildings in the Milton Keynes area. In this role you will get involved in delivering the fun stuff, which helps them to regain their confidence as well as keep busy and occupied!

A typical day as our Activities Support Coordinator

• You’ll run our current activity groups which include things like gardening, music, art and crafts. We are also keen for you to work with our customers to plan new activities!
• Communicate with the support team to understand customers needs and preferences each day.
• You’ll support individuals to develop social and practical skills through structured activities.
• Provide emotional support and build positive relationships with customers
• Maintain a safe and stimulating environment, ensuring materials and spaces are well prepared.
• Adapt activities to suit different sensory, emotional and communication needs, ensuring inclusivity.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You bring

• You’re passionate and motivated to help vulnerable people make positive and lasting changes to their lives. It’s your “can do” positive attitude and enthusiasm that are critical to make this role a success.
• You’ll impress us with your ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds.
• To make sure our customers are well supported, it’s important that you have worked in a Supported living environment before.
• Ideally you will have some experience in safeguarding, risk assessments, confidentiality, support plans, alongside working collaboratively. We help change our customer’s lives for the better!
• To make sure that we keep our records straight, and customers safe, it's really important that you are technologically savvy (or at the very least not a technophobe!)

About our team

We are super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrate their achievements! We’re not just a team we’re a ‘work family’. Our manager Mike joined the team in 2021 but has worked for Home Group 12 years! There are 3 of us in the team and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too! We’re an experienced group and will be there to support and get you settled in!

Job details

• Your working hours will be Monday through to Thursday 9am to 1pm excluding Bank Holidays.
• As this role is a based over 2 sites, you need to be able to drive, as well as having access to a car insured for business purposes. Don’t worry, we’ll pay your expenses to cover this use!
• When you join, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Support Coordinator Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.