Activity Coordinator
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Fareham, PO17 5NAView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
The post holder will deliver a range of recreational activities which are accessible and meaningful to service users in order to: *help individuals ex...
- Work with service users to identify meaningful activities.
- Develop activity programmes for the unit.
- Monitor, evaluate and modify activities to ensure they meet the needs of service users with support from the occupational therapy and nursing teams.
- Demonstrate understanding of the importance of activity to mental health and wellbeing and to articulate and promote the importance of engagement in this setting.
- Work within appropriate service/clinical guidelines such as the MHA, in the planning and delivery of group and individual activities which engage clients.
- Assist and supervise service users to use exercise equipment.
- Contribute to nursing assessment and treatment of service users including physical health and risk monitoring.
- Ensure that written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Trust standards
- Maintain effective communication regarding activities with services users, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and others as appropriate.
- Work as an integrated member of the MDT.
- Ensure that any information related to service users or other personal safety is communicated immediately to the nurse in charge of the ward.
- Promote service users' involvement in all aspects of their care.
- Have knowledge of risk assessment and management tools currently in use within the service and to provide care for service users within those guidelines.
- Recognise potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly until assistance arrives.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Qualifications
Essential
- Willingness to work towards achieving Gym or Personal Training Qualification.
- Willingness to work towards achieving Food Hygiene, Level 2 Training
- Numeracy and Literacy Skills Level 2(GCSE grade A-C)
- European Computer Driving License or similar
- Commitment to Lifelong Learning
Desirable: - Gym or Personal Training Qualification.; - Food Hygiene, Level 2 Qualification; - Vdt MoCA Qualification; - NVQ Level 2 in Care or a related subject
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in groups or individuals in; health care, teaching or voluntary organisations
- Motivating others.
- Experience of running programmes of physical or creative activity and designing new group/individual activities programmes.
- Ability to maintain personal and professional boundaries between yourself, service users and their carers
- Experience of making appropriate decisions within an unpredictable environment
- Experience of undertaking administrative tasks and maintaining written and electronic records
- Ability to self-manage emotions and resilience in a range of situations
- Knowledge of mental health care issues
- Ability to secure the co-operation of colleagues at all levels
- Ability to undertake PMVA
Desirable
- PMVA training
- Experience of working in a mental health in-patient unit
- Experience of working with service users / young people
- Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams
- NHS Experience
- Experience of working in a sports/leisure environment.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
14 October 2026
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