Midland Heart
Location
Coventry | United Kingdom
Job description
The Role
Join our Retirement Living team in Coventry as a Lifestyle Coach - a fun yet challenging role where you’ll promote active lifestyles, positive wellbeing and social inclusion within our services!
This is a brand-new role we’ve created where you’ll work in partnership with our residents and their families, to plan, organise, promote and facilitate a varied calendar of activities and events to enhance the wellbeing of our residents in a fun, entertaining and inclusive way - always ensuring that our residents have a voice in contributing towards the programme. You’ll also play a key role in building relationships with the local community, external services and other local Sheltered schemes to drive the delivery of and participation in activities/events. Importantly, you’ll review the success of the lifestyle programmes to continually improve customer experience.
Our residents lead independent lifestyles, so our vision is that with your support, our residents will be empowered to run their own programme of activities and events, with a little support from you when needed.
Initially this role will support the facilitation of activities and events at Willowbrook Court, near University of Warwick; once the service is up and running, you’ll then support other Sheltered Retirement Living Schemes in the Coventry area too - the ability and willingness to travel to multiple schemes across Coventry which are not all accessible via public transport is essential. Please be aware, this is a lone worker role where you may be the only responsible person on scheme, representing Midland Heart in the event of an emergency or customer query.
This is a part time role working 17.5 hours per week, between 9am-5pm Monday to Friday - we’re flexible of the days of work and start/finish times!
Our ideal candidate? We’re looking for an engaging and adaptable individual who strives to deliver the best possible customer experience whilst balancing multiple demands. Your application will also demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Who are Midland Heart?We’re a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome people from every walk of life, at every stage of their career. We expect a lot from our people but in return you can be assured of a great place to work, where you will be well rewarded and where great people are able to succeed. Whether you want to build your career with us, or use your experience to move on, we’re here to develop your potential.
What can we offer? We have a whole host of benefits to be taken advantage of by our colleagues! As well our competitive package, we will match your pension contributions up to 8% and also offer other great benefits such as medicash and our "Brilliant Benefits" portal allowing for discount on your shopping with a wide range of retail stores. For more information, please click here.
Interested?Click on "Candidate Information" below for a full Role Profile. Applying is easy - simply register on our candidate portal, upload your CV and Cover Letter.
We’re also recruiting for another part time Lifestyle Coach initially based from Princethorpe Court, in Ernsford Grange – please click here to find out more. We’ll happily consider candidates for either role on a part time basis (Job Share) or for the full role (35 hours per week) across both schemes, increasing to all schemes in Coventry. Please state this clearly when applying.
We reserve the right to stop recruitment activity, should an appointment be made before the advertised closing date.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss any adjustments you might need in order to be successful in this role.
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Salary
£10.82k - £21.64k per annum
