Activity Coordinator - Woodlands House

Job overview

Are you a creative, compassionate, and energetic individual ready for a rewarding role empowering others on their recovery journey? Join our supportive team as an Activity Coordinator at Woodlands House!

Woodlands House is a 20-bedded forensic low secure ward specialising in services for people with enduring mental illness. Our care is rooted in the Recovery Model, emphasizing individual strengths, hope, and meaningful engagement. We actively encourage family involvement.

You will be instrumental in enriching service users' lives by designing and delivering programs that foster hope, build skills, and support personal recovery goals.

You will:

• Design & Lead: Plan, organise, and lead a diverse range of therapeutic and engaging activities tailored to service user needs.
• Support Recovery: Ensure activities align with the principles of the Recovery Model, promoting independence and social integration, in collaboration with the clinical team.
• Key Team Member: Contribute vital positive energy and support to the ward's atmosphere

What We Offer

• Enhanced Earnings: This post includes a Recruitment & Retention Uplift (RSU Lead) of £1,446 per annum, paid on top of your annual salary.
• Career Development: Mandatory specialist training, including PEACE training, and other direct job-related development opportunities.

Practical Details

• Hours: Shift pattern between 07:00 and 21:30.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work collaboratively in the planning, development and provision of a range of therapeutic, wellbeing and social activities for the service 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 team whilst working collaboratively with the occupational therapy team.
• Deliver meaningful therapeutic and wellbeing activities that support recovery and social engagement for service users on inpatient forensic wards
• Work closely with nursing and occupational therapy teams to design, facilitate, and evaluate programmes in line with service guideline
• Encourage service user participation and progress by creating safe, inclusive environments and contributing to holistic care planning

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

This role is subject to job evaluation.