Activities Co-ordinator

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Hereford; On-site; GBP 21,000 - GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Hereford is seeking an Activities Coordinator to support vulnerable individuals through engaging and recreational programs. This role involves coordinating activities and documenting progress to ensure holistic care. Candidates should possess group work skills, good communication capabilities, and ideally have experience within mental health. Additional benefits include competitive salary, generous leave, and career development opportunities, making this an excellent position for someone passionate about making a difference.

Benefits

Annual salary of £25,057.50

33 days annual leave including bank holidays

Free meals and parking

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• Basic group work skills are necessary.
• Minimum of 12 months experience within a mental health setting is desirable.
• Effective communication and team collaboration are critical.
• Good organisational skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating social and recreational activities for service users.
• Observing users' behaviors and reporting to teams.
• Documenting observations in clinical notes.
• Ensuring safety standards for service users and staff.

Skills

Group work skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Solution-focused approach

Education

Minimum 12 months experience in mental health setting (desirable)

Full UK driver’s licence

Job description

Introduction

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.

Hours and Location

Working 37.5 hours a week, you will join the team at Stanley House, creating an activity‑based culture and using technical and creative skills to develop, deliver and coordinate programmes focused on social, recreational and leisure activities.

As an Activities Coordinator you will be:

• Co‑ordinating social and recreational activities for service users within the secure environment who are unable to freely access public services.
• Obtaining information from service users regarding their social and recreational interests.
• Observing general behaviour, ability and response of service users and reporting back regularly using verbal and written communication to appropriate team members.
• Under supervision, documenting observations and progress in the service user’s clinical notes.
• Fulfilling the security requirements of the service and adhering to service policies, guidelines and procedures.
• Performing basic risk assessment on a day‑to‑day basis for individuals and groups of service users.
• Ensuring that health and safety, welfare and security standards for service users, staff and their visitors are adhered to.
• Exhibiting effective coordination skills and resource use.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

• Basic group work skills.
• Minimum of 12 months experience within a mental health setting (desirable).
• 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.
• Awareness of gender‑specific needs.
• Awareness of the cultural needs of service users.
• Full UK driver’s licence.

Where you will be working:

Bosbury, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR8 1HB.

You will be working at Stanley House, a service which offers a multidisciplinary approach to long‑term care provision and provides specialised care and expert therapeutic interventions. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will support and enable residents to undergo reviews of their specific and/or changing needs. Stanley House offers therapies and activities, including physiotherapy and art therapy, and receives input from a professor in neuropsychiatry and monthly specialist GP clinics.

Residents at Stanley House have varying needs, from being able to manage some of their own needs to being fully reliant. This includes personal care involving washing, dressing, shaving and helping with continence needs, and helping residents to eat – a big part of the daily routine.

End‑of‑life care is also provided to enable residents to stay in the comfort and familiar surroundings of Stanley House, where their family can also be supported.

There’s plenty of fun to be had too, through supporting residents to take part in regular communal activities, from providing wheelchair and walking assistance to afternoons of laughter with bouncy castles, family fun days and trips to the local café, shops and bowling. These precious moments are most rewarding and make it all worthwhile.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £25,057.50.
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) plus your birthday off.
• Free meals and parking.
• Well‑being support and activities to help you maintain a great work‑life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced maternity package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers 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.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a disability confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.