Job overview

Are you self-motivated, organised, dynamic, innovative and flexible in your approach?

Do you have a passion or interest in working in mental health and engaging people in meaningful activities?

Castle is our female acute ward based at the Peter Hodgkinson Centre in Lincoln, and the Activity Coordinator role is multifaceted and pivotal in providing recreation, engagement, and participation through enjoyable activities.

The role involves the organising and delivery of a range of tailored, meaningful, social & recreational therapeutic activities for those on the ward, working with service users, ward and therapy team staff. Core aspects of the role include engaging with patients, managing tools and equipment safely in the setting and a flexible approach in offering activities.

The role sits within the acute therapy team, and there are regular opportunities for joint working with occupational therapy, physiotherapy and in-reach projects.

The role is a full-time post (37.5 hours) which involves shift work, including some weekend and evening work. RRP, or the ability to undertake RRP training, is essential.

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

To carry out the role of an activities coordinator within an acute mental health inpatient unit. This will involve planning and delivering a range of relevant and meaningful social, recreational, and therapeutic activities, both within the hospital setting and in the community. A specific focus of this post will be the development and provision of activities during the evenings and weekends.

The activities will be required to meet the needs of the patient group as a whole, in addition to tailor-made programmes to reflect the assessed needs within individual care plans. As patient needs fluctuate rapidly, the nature of the service and activity programmes will need to be fluid and dynamic and promote a recovery ethos.

To assist in clinical practice, promote equality for all individuals, manage information, and maintain resources.

Contribute to the service development of activity provision on the acute wards, including participation in audit and research, care plans, and discharge planning.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.