Activity Coordinator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This full-time Activity Coordinator role is based on Allen Ward, an 18-bedded female acute working age mental health ward at Warneford Hospital. The post involves engaging service users in physical and recreational activities, planning programmes, and coordinating events under the supervision of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will help improve patients' mental and physical health and wellbeing by identifying their strengths and needs to plan suitable group and individual activities. The role requires participation in PEACE training, which includes physical restraint techniques.
Essential criteria
- Active interest in & willingness to participate in delivering a wide range of therapeutic activities with all patients.
- Good interpersonal skills to work with patients, carers & staff.
- Time management & organisational skills to undertake activities.
Desirable criteria
- Prior skill & experience in a relevant area of work e.g. creative arts, crafts, physical fitness
- Acknowledgement and experience of needing to assess patient's risks in relation to certain activities.
- Experience of running groups/sessions
- Basic knowledge of the Mental Health Act
- Experience/ Qualifications/ Training
- Care certificate/other qualification or ability to complete when starting on Allen Ward.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Ability to understand and proactively Safeguard patients and others.
- Experience of working with people within a mental health setting
- Other Work Related Requirements:
- Positive attitude to people with mental health diagnoses.
- Recognition of needing to work flexibly and to be adaptive as required by the service.
- Skills & Knowledge:
- Active interest in & willingness to participate in delivering a wide range of therapeutic activities with all patients.
- Good interpersonal skills to work with patients, carers & staff.
- Time management & organisational skills to undertake activities.
- Prior skill & experience in a relevant area of work e.g. creative arts, crafts, physical fitness
- Acknowledgement and experience of needing to assess patient's risks in relation to certain activities.
- Experience of running groups/sessions
- Basic knowledge of the Mental Health Act
- Experience/ Qualifications/ Training
- Care certificate/other qualification or ability to complete when starting on Allen Ward.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Ability to understand and proactively Safeguard patients and others.
- Experience of working with people within a mental health setting
- Other Work Related Requirements:
- Positive attitude to people with mental health diagnoses.
- Recognition of needing to work flexibly and to be adaptive as required by the service.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Activity Coordinator
The closing date is 10 September 2026
Job summary
Looking for a new challenge in mental health?
We are seeking to recruit a full time Activity Coordinator to join one of our Mental Health Wards based at the Warneford Hospital.
Allen Ward is a 18 bedded female acute working age mental health ward, supporting patients who are in an acute crisis of their mental health diagnosis.
The activity co-ordinator post forms part of the multi-disciplinary team, including Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Health Care Assistants, Physiotherapist, Physio Technician, and Dietician.
Each of the wards at the Warneford Hospital have an activity co-ordinator post, providing lots of opportunities to link up with others and receive regular peer supervision.
Ward staff are required undertake PEACE training. This 5-day training course covers the curriculum relating to the prevention and application of Restrictive Practice and Interventions as detailed in the Restraint Reduction Network Training Standards 2019. Therefore, applicants need to have a good range of mobility and fitness to learn the physical restraint techniques taught on the course.
Main duties of the job
- Engage service users in physical and recreational activity appropriate to their individual needs and abilities.
- Plan and co-ordinate a programme
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