Lifestyles & Activities Team Leader

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

Job summary

A leading care home provider is seeking an Activities Lead to inspire and guide the activities team at their March location. You will ensure residents engage in meaningful activities, fostering independence and wellbeing. Ideal candidates will have experience in care settings and strong communication skills. This role offers a competitive salary of £13.21 per hour and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Fully comprehensive induction

Competitive salary with holiday enhancements

28 days holiday per year

Free Blue Light Card access

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience planning and coordinating events or activities in a care or healthcare setting.
• Excellent communication skills and a genuine passion for enhancing the lives of others.
• Knowledge of dementia care is highly desirable.
• A proven ability to lead, motivate and support a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Activities Team to create and deliver engaging events.
• Promote dignity, respect, and independence through activities.
• Build genuine relationships with residents to support wellbeing.
• Contribute to newsletters to keep the community connected.

Skills

Event planning

Communication skills

Team leadership

Dementia care knowledge

Job description

Overview

As an Activities Lead at Aria Court Care Home, you will take the lead in inspiring, motivating and guiding our activities team to deliver fun, creative and meaningful experiences for our residents. At Aria Court, we’re all about creating special moments that matter.

About Aria Court Care Home

Following a recent refurbishment, Aria Court is a modern 92-bedroom home equipped with state-of-the-art facilities.

Nestled in a peaceful residential area of March, Cambridgeshire, our home offers a cinema, hair salon, welcoming dining spaces and beautiful gardens overflowing with home-grown fruit and vegetables.

Our award-winning kitchen team even published their own cookbook, showcasing the passion and creativity that runs through everything we do. As one of March’s leading residential care homes, Aria Court is committed to delivering the very best care in a safe, supportive and comfortable environment.

About the role

The Activities Lead (known internally as Lifestyles Lead) plays a key role in ensuring our residents enjoy stimulating, enjoyable and person-centred activities every day. You’ll plan, organise and promote a varied programme that supports independence, wellbeing and inclusion, while reflecting the principles of excellent clinical, dementia and person-centred care.

Working closely with your team, you’ll encourage every colleague to be part of the activities programme, making sure our residents’ lives are enriched through connection, creativity and choice.

Salary

£13.21 per hour.

Shift Pattern

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

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Leading the Activities Team to create and deliver engaging events and activities that residents and their families will love.
• Promoting dignity, respect and independence through high-quality, meaningful activities.
• Building genuine relationships with residents, understanding their interests and supporting their wellbeing.
• Contributing to quarterly residents’ and relatives’ newsletters to keep our community connected.

Training, Skills & Experience Required

• Experience planning and coordinating events or activities, ideally in a care or healthcare setting.
• Excellent communication skills and a genuine passion for enhancing the lives of others.
• Knowledge of dementia care is highly desirable.
• A proven ability to lead, motivate and support a team.

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.