Activities Coordinator

Being an Activities Coordinator is so much more than just organising programmes. It's providing care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society so they can do something they couldn't do before. It's what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

Working 37.5 hours a week, you will join the team at Wellington where you will create an activity-based culture, which will see you use technical and creative skills to assist in developing, delivering and coordinating programmes focused on social, recreational and leisure activities.

You will be responsible for creating 1-1 rapports with service users to help evolve and shape the activities to increase engagement. As you plan and implement activities around their interests, this should also have a strong emphasis on their individual needs to support the treatment plans.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will develop links with community-based resources to support service users to engage in local activities.

A range of training opportunities are available that can see your career grow and you achieve your career aspirations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Co-ordinate social and recreational activities for service users within the secure environment who are unable to freely access public services
• To obtain information from service users regarding their social and recreational interests
• To observe general behaviour, ability, and response of service users and report back regularly using verbal and written communications to appropriate team members
• Under supervision document observations and progress in the service user's clinical notes
• Basic risk assessment on a day-to-day basis to individuals and groups of service users
• To ensure that health and safety, welfare and security standards for service users, staff and their visitors are adhered to
• Effective skills of co-ordination and use of resources.

Where you will be working

Location: Westpark 26, Chelston, Wellington, Somerset, TA21 9FF
Join the multidisciplinary team at Wellesley Hospital providing care to men and women with mental health conditions in a modern and purpose-built hospital with low and medium secure environments.
The unit is one of NHS England’s pilot sites to test new approaches to delivering mental health care and works alongside local NHS trusts and private care providers in the South West.
Wellesley Hospital is conveniently located near Wellington, close to the M5 and commutable from Taunton, Exeter, Yeovil and surrounding areas.

To be successful as an Activities Coordinator, you’ll need:

• Ability to communicate effectively and work within a team-based framework.
• Initiative and motivation
• Awareness of Mental Health and its impact on functioning
• Solution-focused approach to problem-solving
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work flexibly to meet service and service user's needs.
• Awareness of gender-specific needs
• Awareness of the cultural needs of service users
• Minimum of 12 months experience within a mental health setting (Desirable)

What you will get:  

• Annual salary of £23,498 + Benefits
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals 
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more. 

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.