Activities Lead

Allegra Care; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A residential care provider in Peterborough is seeking an Activities Coordinator to lead the activities team. The role involves designing engaging activities, managing budgets, and working closely with residents and their families. You will need excellent organisational and communication skills, along with a creative and empathetic approach to promote wellbeing and happiness among residents. The position is full-time with a flexible schedule to accommodate special events.

Qualifications

• Experience in coordinating activities or similar roles.
• Strong ability to manage budgets for activities.
• Must be flexible to work varying hours.

Responsibilities

• Lead the activities team in providing quality activities for residents.
• Design annual activities plans and manage them effectively.
• Engage residents, families, and the community in activities.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Creativity

Empathy

Multitasking

Job description

Cherry Blossom. An Allegra Care Home.

At Allegra Care, we follow a household model of care — creating warm, family‑style environments where residents feel truly at home. Our compassionate teams build meaningful relationships, supporting independence, dignity and wellbeing every day. Join us and make a genuine difference in a caring, close‑knit community.

In this exciting role, you will lead our activities team in our home. This is a hands‑on role and you will work closely with our care team, residents, relatives/friends and the wider community to provide the very best quality activities to help maintain both physical and mental health. You’ll delight in providing our residents with opportunities to develop new hobbies and maintain current interests. The role is a full‑time job with an agreed 36‑hour schedule over seven days, including alternate weekends.

You’ll need to be flexible, possibly when a special event is planned, as you might work fewer hours during the week and a bit extra in the evening or over the weekend for example.

About You.

Are you a people person who is (very) good at organising? You’ll be a great communicator, and a great planner with an eye for detail. You’ll design our annual activities plans, manage them to a budget, enthuse the home and community to be involved and share stories about life in the home.

We Asked Zoe, One Of Our Team, To Tell Us What We Should Advertise For, & This Is What She Said:

• My thoughts are with any activities role you need to be creative, passionate & dedicated to the position. The activities role is such a rewarding position as we get to enrich residents lives every day by bringing fun, meaningful structured activities into there day to day living within the home.
• You need to be able to promote happiness and opportunities for residents to express themselves.
• Your face shall be the face that the residents love to see every morning, with an empathetic, happy demeanour to start there day & in return you see the happiness and smiles that you have brought to there lives through this role.
• You need to be super organised, a multitasker, accurate with all recording & adaptable.

You’re passionate, enthusiastic, and you’ll love helping our residents find the joy in life, every day! It’s genuinely one of the best jobs in care, so if it sounds good… apply today!