Activity Coordinator - Kingfisher Ward

Job overview

We are recruiting for an Activity Coordinator to join our Kingfisher Ward Team, based at Littlemore Mental Health Centre to deliver a wide range of therapeutic, wellbeing, and social activities for service users.

Kingfisher is a 16 bedded low secure unit for females with a diagnosis of mental illness and/or personality disorder based at Thames House. Many of our service users have had experience of the criminal justice system in the past.

You'll organise and facilitate group and individual activities tailored to service users’ needs, helping to build confidence, develop skills, and encourage social interaction. You'll also collaborate with the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure activities are inclusive, meaningful, and support each patient’s recovery journey. Strong communication and organisational skills are essential, as well as the ability to adapt activities to suit different needs. We have established very effective ways of working with the patients to help them identify and reach their goals whilst keeping them safe and supporting them onwards to a new life in the community.

If you have experience in activity coordination, a creative mindset, and a commitment to supporting individuals in their recovery, we would love to hear from you!

This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary

Please note, this role involves some weekend work outside core hours (Monday-Friday 9-5pm)

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will work collaboratively in the planning, development and provision of a range of therapeutic, wellbeing and social activities for the services users on the inpatient forensic wards as appropriate to service user need and within the established service guidelines. You will be supported by the nursing, medical, psychology and occupational therapy team members.

Main duties include:

• Engage service users in physical and recreational activity appropriate to their individual needs and abilities
• Plan and co-ordinate an innovative and adaptive programme of activity under the supervision and direction of members of the multi disciplinary team
• Organise and plan service user events in collaboration with MDT colleagues to promote inclusivity.
• Develop and use practical and technical skills with service users, either through your own identification of need or as suggested by members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Work with service users to improve their mental health, physical health and wellbeing.
• Assist in identifying service user’s strengths and needs in order to plan and implement suitable activities for groups and individual service users.
• Be involved in evaluating the effectiveness of activity with service users, carers and the multi-disciplinary team
• Complete PEACE Teamwork and other mandatory training directly related to the job

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Littlemore Mental Health Centre was opened in the early 2000s and sits in the pretty Village of Sandford-on-Thames on the outskirts of Oxford. The site sits within commuter distance of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire and London City. Due to our central location, we boast a hugely inclusive and diverse staff group and consider ourselves lucky to have such diversity within our team.

We are committed to the ongoing development of our staffing group and actively encourage the continued professional development of our employees. Oxford Health has an ever-growing Learning and Development department that can work with your line manager in supporting your ongoing growth.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.