Care Home Activities Coordinator

Athena Care Homes (UK) Ltd; MARCH; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A family-run care home provider in March is seeking an Activities Coordinator. This role focuses on enhancing residents’ wellbeing through engaging activities tailored to their preferences. It's ideal for someone with experience in event planning within a care setting and a passion for supporting individual needs. Offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits including holiday leave, employee discounts, and training opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

28 days of holiday per year

Free Blue Light Card

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a care or healthcare setting preferred.
• Passion for enhancing residents' wellbeing.
• Ability to engage in genuine conversations.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering diverse activities reflecting residents’ preferences.
• Champion person-centred care and empower lifestyle choices.
• Spend quality time with residents supporting activities.

Skills

Experience planning or supporting events or activities

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of dementia care

Ability to work as part of a team

Job description

As an Activities Coordinator at Aria Court Care Home, you will help bring joy, creativity and connection into our residents’ lives. Working alongside our team, you’ll support the planning and delivery of meaningful, enjoyable and stimulating activities that create special moments and lasting memories.

About Aria Court Care Home

Following a recent refurbishment, Aria Court is now a bright and welcoming 92‑bedroom home with state‑of‑the‑art facilities.

Tucked away in a peaceful residential corner of March, Cambridgeshire, our home offers a cinema, hair salon, spacious dining rooms and beautiful gardens bursting with home‑grown fruit and vegetables.

Our award‑winning kitchen team even published their own cookbook, reflecting the pride and creativity that runs through everything we do. As one of the leading care homes in March, Aria Court is dedicated to providing exceptional care in a safe, supportive and homely environment.

About the role

The Activities Coordinator (known internally as Lifestyles Coordinator) plays a vital part in helping residents live well each day. You’ll support the organisation and promotion of a varied activities programme, ensuring it is inclusive, engaging and tailored to residents’ individual interests and needs.

You’ll also encourage colleagues and residents to get involved, making sure everyone feels part of the home’s social life and community.

Salary

£12.21 per hour.

Shift Pattern

20 hours per week, worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Assisting in the delivery of a diverse programme of activities that reflect residents’ personalities, preferences and choices.
• Championing person‑centred care by empowering residents to make lifestyle choices that are meaningful to them.
• Spending time with residents in genuine, engaging conversations and supporting activities at a pace that values individuality, dignity and communication differences.

Training, Skills & Experience Required

• Experience planning or supporting events or activities, ideally within a care or healthcare setting.
• Excellent communication skills and a real passion for enhancing residents’ wellbeing.
• Knowledge of dementia care is an advantage.
• The ability to work as part of a team and contribute positively to home life.

What we can offer

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena

Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities.

Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care, clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care.

We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.