Activities Co-Ordinator

Beechfield Care Group are currently seeking to recruit Activities Co-Ordinator to assume responsibility for the care of residents at Beech Park Nursing Home, Kildare R51 PC58

We are a long-established Nursing Home Group based Dublin, Carlow, Meath, Westmeath & Kildare. Our mission is to provide the best standard of quality care to our residents. Our philosophy places the care of the resident at the heart of the nursing home.

About Beechfield Park

At Beechfield Park, located nestled in the Kildare countryside just minutes from Kildare Town, every resident is unique, and we respect and value everyone for who they are. This is our ethos, one which we live by in the beautiful surrounds of Beech Park. We take pride in our wonderful and passionate care team, and this is essential in achieving and maintaining the high standard that we set for ourselves.

The Role:

The Activities Co-Ordinator assesses, plans, implements and evaluates programs for resident activities which are multi-faceted, meet the resident's functional needs, and reflect interests of each resident.

Duties Include:

• Plans, schedules, implements and evaluates a program of individual and/or group activities based on the resident's needs.
• Coordinates and participates in resident activities designed to promote social interaction, reality orientation and intellectual stimulation.
• Provides residents who are confined or choose to remain in their rooms with in-room activities in keeping with lifelong interests.
• Completes the activity assessment and care plan documentation following the gathering of information to reflect the individual resident s functional level, problems, needs and interests.
• Documents activity related information on the residents’ charts. Reviews staff s chart entries for completeness.
• Develop monthly calendar of planned activities.
• Develops and reviews continuous quality improvement plans for the Activity Programme