Lifestyles Team Leader

**_As an Activities Lead at Aria Court Care Home, you will be responsible for leading the activities team to deliver unique, creative and engaging activities for our residents - we want to make memorable moments at Aria Court_**

**About Aria Court Care Home**:
After a recent refurbishment, Aria Court is now a sparkling 92-bedroom care home with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

Located in a quiet residential nook in March, Cambridgeshire, our home boasts a cinema, hair salon, multiple dining rooms. Beautiful gardens provide a bounty of home-grown fruit and veg.

The kitchen team at Aria Court are award-winning and have even created their own cookbook full of their best recipes. As one of the leading residential care homes in March, Cambridgeshire, Aria Court offers nothing less than the best care for your loved one in a safe and comfortable environment.

**About the role**:
The Activities Lead, known internally as Lifestyles Lead, supports the provision of meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities which are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the Home for all residents in line with the principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines for person centred care, clinical care and dementia care.

The Activities Lead will proactively engage with and support the activities programme within the Homes. They will provide support to ensure that all team members know about and are engaged in the activities programme.

**Salary**:
£13.21 per hour.

**Shift Pattern**:
37.5 hours per week, worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

**Home Location**:
Coronation Close, March, England, PE15 9PP.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Leading our Activities Team to deliver unique, creative and interesting activities and events which resonate with and engage our residents and their loved ones.
- Providing a high level of quality activities for our residents - promoting dignity, respect and independence.
- Engaging with residents in meaningful conversation and genuinely understanding their needs.
- Supporting putting together quarterly residents & relative’s newsletters for the home.

**Training, Skills & Experience Required**:

- Experience of organising and scheduling programmes of events or activities, ideally within a healthcare environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with a genuine passion for enhancing the lives of our residents.
- Knowledge of dementia is highly advantageous.
- Proven track record for leading, empowering, supporting & motivating 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.