Activity Coordinator | North London NHS Foundation Trust

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
• 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.

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.

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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This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026