Day-to-day operating brief
What Activity Coordinator (Day centres) work looks like in practice
A Day Centre Activity Coordinator plans social, creative and movement sessions for adults who may have varied mobility, communication or support needs. Terms should cover programme planning, consent and choice, risk information, staffing, transport, venues, visiting providers, materials, petty cash, safeguarding, photographs, incident records and referral to care or clinical colleagues when participation needs change. A day-centre programme needs more than a calendar of entertainments. The coordinator may balance chair-based movement, crafts, reminiscence, games and local visitors for people with different mobility, communication and cognitive needs. Employers should specify how individual preferences are gathered, how attendance or changing ability is shared with care colleagues, who approves community outings and how petty cash or donated materials are controlled. The post also benefits from clear arrangements for accessible equipment, transport, volunteer supervision, photographs, family requests and cancellation when staffing or weather makes an activity unsuitable.
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.