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Care Home Lifestyle Coordinator Employment Contract UK

Define a broader resident-wellbeing role focused on identity, relationships and meaningful everyday choices, not simply a fixed entertainment calendar.

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When to use this contract

Deliver individual and group lifestyle plans, inclusive community and in-home opportunities, and resident feedback used to improve participation.

Workplace context: Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering resident voice and consent. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering community links and volunteers. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering weekend and event work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering photos, budgets and personal histories. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CQC requirements where applicable.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The coordinator may plan within approved resources and resident choices. Care restrictions, safeguarding, significant spend, transport changes and publication of resident information require the relevant manager or care decision-maker. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the lifestyle remit and how it differs from care or activities roles
  • the residents, units and community relationships covered
  • the evening, weekend, outing and special-event expectations
  • the budget, purchasing and volunteer authority delegated
  • the consent rules for life histories, photographs and publicity
  • the reporting routes for transport, safeguarding and care-plan concerns

Day-to-day operating brief

What Lifestyle Coordinator work looks like in practice

A lifestyle coordinator develops resident-led opportunities for social connection, identity and wellbeing across everyday life, not just a calendar of entertainment. The contract should cover community partners, volunteers, personal histories, consent, budgets and inclusive planning for residents with different communication or mobility needs.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Learn and record residents' interests, relationships and lifestyle preferences appropriately.
  • Develop individual and shared opportunities for connection and participation.
  • Build safe links with community, cultural and faith organisations.
  • Coordinate volunteers and visitors under the home's checks and supervision.
  • Manage programme resources and spending within delegated limits.
  • Gather resident feedback and adapt plans without overriding care decisions.

A realistic working scenario

Several residents ask to restart a faith-community visit while one person prefers private observance. The coordinator records each choice, checks transport and support with the care team and arranges distinct options rather than treating the group request as universal consent.

Outputs to agree

  • individual and group lifestyle plans
  • inclusive community and in-home opportunities
  • resident feedback used to improve participation

Records and evidence

  • Resident interest and life-history information.
  • Programme, attendance and feedback.
  • Community partner and volunteer arrangement.
  • Budget, consent and outing record.
  • Care plans.
  • Care notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Provider, Responsible Individual, Operations Manager or Regional Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The coordinator may plan within approved resources and resident choices. Care restrictions, safeguarding, significant spend, transport changes and publication of resident information require the relevant manager or care decision-maker.
  • May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

  • Coordinate volunteers and visitors under the home's checks and supervision.
  • Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

  • Care record systems.
  • Rostering systems.
  • Medication records where authorised.
  • Moving and handling equipment where trained.
  • Secure communication tools.

Workplace context

  • Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
  • Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

  • resident voice and consent
  • community links and volunteers
  • weekend and event work
  • photos, budgets and personal histories

Information the employer should prepare

  • the lifestyle remit and how it differs from care or activities roles
  • the residents, units and community relationships covered
  • the evening, weekend, outing and special-event expectations
  • the budget, purchasing and volunteer authority delegated
  • the consent rules for life histories, photographs and publicity
  • the reporting routes for transport, safeguarding and care-plan concerns

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The facts this Lifestyle Coordinator contract is built around

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Work setting

Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Primary duties

  • Learn and record residents' interests, relationships and lifestyle preferences appropriately.
  • Develop individual and shared opportunities for connection and participation.
  • Build safe links with community, cultural and faith organisations.
  • Coordinate volunteers and visitors under the home's checks and supervision.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Care record systems.
  • Rostering systems.
  • Medication records where authorised.
  • Moving and handling equipment where trained.

Governance focus

CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering resident voice and consent. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering community links and volunteers. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering weekend and event work.

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Lifestyle Coordinator duties

Deliver individual and group lifestyle plans, inclusive community and in-home opportunities, and resident feedback used to improve participation.

Learn and record residents' interests, relationships and lifestyle preferences appropriately. Develop individual and shared opportunities for connection and participation. Build safe links with community, cultural and faith organisations. Coordinate volunteers and visitors under the home's checks and supervision. Manage programme resources and spending within delegated limits.

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The coordinator may plan within approved resources and resident choices. Care restrictions, safeguarding, significant spend, transport changes and publication of resident information require the relevant manager or care decision-maker.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering resident voice and consent.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering community links and volunteers.

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Frequently asked questions

How is a lifestyle coordinator different from an activities coordinator?

The role may have a broader focus on identity, relationships and everyday wellbeing. The contract should reflect the home's actual division of responsibility rather than rely on the title.

Can volunteers receive resident information?

Only the minimum information authorised for their role, with clear supervision and confidentiality arrangements.

Can life-history information be shared with volunteers?

Only the minimum authorised information needed for their supervised role, respecting the resident's choices and the home's privacy arrangements.

May the coordinator arrange a new community partnership?

They can develop proposals, while safeguarding checks, access, information sharing, costs and formal commitments should receive the employer's required approval.

How should different faith or cultural preferences be supported?

Ask and record individual choices, develop suitable options and avoid assuming that residents with a shared background want the same practice or participation.

Can residents help decide the lifestyle budget?

Their views can and should inform priorities, while spending remains subject to the home's documented authority, receipts and procurement controls.

What if an outing conflicts with a resident's care information?

Pause the commitment and coordinate with the care team so current mobility, support, transport and emergency needs can be addressed with the resident.

May the Lifestyle Coordinator publish resident stories online?

Only where the specific material and channel are covered by valid permission and the home's privacy process; sharing a history for care does not authorise publicity.

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