Parklands Care Home
Hourly Rate: *12.76 per hour
Hours: Bank / Flexible
Shift Pattern: typically picking up shifts of 9am – 5:30pm but flexibility required to pick up shifts to assist with outings that may require earlier starts or later evening availability.
Are you a compassionate and dependable individual looking for flexible daytime shifts in a friendly and supportive care environment? Join our team at Parklands Care Home, a purpose-built facility offering expert residential, dementia nursing, and dementia care.
Situated just a short walk from the beautiful Hesketh Park, Parklands is thoughtfully designed to promote comfort, wellbeing, and independence for our residents.
The Role: Create Moments That Matter
As an Activities Coordinator at Parklands, you will play a key role in enhancing residents' wellbeing by designing activities that bring joy, purpose, comfort, and connection. No two days are the same — and every day offers the chance to make a real difference.
Key Responsibilities
Plan and deliver a varied programme of activities, including arts and crafts, music, gentle movement, gardening, games, reminiscence sessions and more.
Organise special events such as themed celebrations, birthdays, seasonal activities, and visits from entertainers.
Build warm, meaningful relationships with residents and tailor activities to their interests, lifestyle and individual preferences.
Create dementiafriendly engagement sessions, including sensory and cognitivestimulation activities.
Coordinate communitybased experiences, local outings and opportunities that promote connection beyond the home.
About You
We are looking for someone who is:
Creative, energetic, and highly organised
Compassionate, patient, and committed to enriching the lives of older adults
Experienced in activity planning or working within a care or communitybased setting (desirable)
Flexible and willing to support occasional events outside standard hours
Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits:
Free uniform. Free Meals*. Free DBS.
Discounts on the high street* - with retailers like Asda, Costa and Argos
Refer-a-Friend - and get a 250 bonus
Flexible pay* - choose when you are paid, and get money management tips too
Free wellbeing programme - helping you look after your physical and mental health
Employee recognition scheme - we recognise and reward great work
Pension scheme - helping you plan for your retirement
In-house training - on-going face-to-face training, tailored to you
Career opportunities - The chance to ‘make your mark' and play a key role
Free meals are given if working over an 8 hour shift and are subject to terms and conditions. Discounts are accessed using our ‘Reward Me' app. Flexible pay is available via ‘STREAM'.
Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service, as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates, and those with experience of mental health.
