About this role
Job summary
We are seeking a compassionate, creative, and proactive Activity Coordinator to join our dynamic inpatient therapy team. This role is central to enhancing the therapeutic environment on our acute mental health wards by delivering meaningful, recovery-focused activities that promote engagement, wellbeing, and connection.
You'll work closely with occupational therapists, Art therapists, health and fitness instructor, activity coordinators and technical instructors as well as the wider multidisciplinary team to co-create and facilitate group and individual sessions tailored to the needs of our service users. Activities may include art, music, movement, games, sensory sessions, life skills, and community-focused projects -- all grounded in trauma-informed and inclusive practice.
We welcome applicants from a wide range of backgrounds -- including community work, care, education, creative arts, youth services, and lived experience. You don't need prior mental health experience, but you do need:
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and rapport
Creativity and initiaitve in planning and delivering inclusive activities
Empathy and emotional resilience in working with people in distress
Teamwork and flexiblity in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary setting
Comminment to recovery-focussed care and co-production with service users
Main duties of the job
- To be part of the Inpatient Therapy Team who provide occupational therapy based on the Model of Human Occupation.
- To be an active member of the multi-disciplinary teams on the wards and, with supervision, contribute to assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care. The post will support the delivery of the OT provision to a designated caseload, focusing on recovery and developing skills for life.
- This will include facilitating a range of therapeutic groups and individual sessions, contributing to multidisciplinary team care planning, formulation and risk assessment.
- You will work closely with the MDT to provide occupational therapy assessment and intervention as part of the acute clinical pathway. The team includes: Occupational Therapists, Art Therapist, Health and Fitness Instructor, Activity Coordinators and Technical Instructor.
About us
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:
We are kind We are respectful We work together We keep things simple We empower We are proudly diverse In order to meet the needs of the new Care Group services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see personal specification for details of required experience and qualifications. The clinical area provides considerable opportunity for personal and professional development.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
GCSE English/Maths A-C/ 4+ NVQ Level 3 in Care or equivalent training or experience
Desirable
Training in specific activities relevant to client group cooking, art/craft
Experience Essential
Facilitation of groups Experience of working with people form diverse background Experience of working with people who have a long term health health condition
Desirable
Working with people who have a mental health condition Experience of being involved in research and audit
Skills and Abilities Essential
Professional approach - time and organisational management good verbal and written English Good IT skills
Desirable
Building links with local community leadership skills
Personal Qualities Essential
Able to work Autonomously able to be calm in stressful situation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Chase Farm Hospital
The Ridgeway
London
EN2 8JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)