Healthcare Assistant - Activities & Health Champion
| Posting date: | 04 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 March 2026 |
| Location: | Fulbourn, CB21 5EF |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7731587/310-ASMH-7731587 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you energetic, positive, and great with people?
Do you enjoy motivating others and leading by example?
Do you believe physical health and routine play a key role in mental health recovery?
If so, we’d love you to join George Mackenzie House.
George Mackenzie House is a secure inpatient unit for adults requiring care in a safe, structured environment. We work collaboratively with patients, using compassion-focused approaches to support recovery, skill development, and preparation for community transition. Meaningful activity, health, and engagement are central to our care model.
As aHealthcare Assistant – Activity & Health Champion, you will focus on promoting physical health, fitness, and therapeutic group engagement. You will motivate patients to take part in physical activity, add structure to their day, and role model positive behaviours for patients and colleagues.
Alongside this specialist focus, you will carry out the full range of Healthcare Assistant duties, supporting personalised care, daily needs, and independence within the secure setting.
This is a visible, hands-on role requiring energy, creativity, resilience, and strong communication skills. The work can be demanding but highly rewarding, within a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to recovery-focused care.
If you want to make a genuine difference every day, we welcome your application.
As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team you will provide support and practical assistance to service users for them to regain confidence in their skills and abilities to enable a successful re integration into the community.
You should demonstrate abilities to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Ability to form relationships with patients and colleagues which are mutuality respectful, facilitate and support information sharing and understanding to achieve agreed goals
The role includes listening and talking with patients/relatives/carers, observing patients’ behaviour and promotion of safety consideration of the unit and individual.
To provide and co-ordinate meaningful group and activity sessions for service users. To develop activities with individuals and support people to use these.
To offer group-based sessions with a focus on health, fitness and recovery.
To work alongside the nursing team in provision of treatment interventions.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and personal specification for full details of responsibilities
To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users.
Have a clear focus on promoting physical health, fitness, and therapeutic group engagement, including engagement in physical activity and exercise opportunities to support physical and mental health
Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on individual resources and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief to inspire and instil confidence
Uses own initiative and job-related training in deciding on the approach and interventions required when working with a service user in delivering support, although supervision is available.
Teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques
Support service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk.
Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behaviour towards other multi-disciplinary team members, service users and carers.
Always have a focus on the rights of service users.
Ensure that recovery goals are integrated into the Trusts CPA process and are reviewed on a regular basis, liaising closely with primary nurses as necessary.
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.
Support other members of the multi-disciplinary team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required.
To demonstrate care and compassion in your work.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026
Are you energetic, positive, and great with people?
Do you enjoy motivating others and leading by example?
Do you believe physical health and routine play a key role in mental health recovery?
If so, we’d love you to join George Mackenzie House.
George Mackenzie House is a secure inpatient unit for adults requiring care in a safe, structured environment. We work collaboratively with patients, using compassion-focused approaches to support recovery, skill development, and preparation for community transition. Meaningful activity, health, and engagement are central to our care model.
As aHealthcare Assistant – Activity & Health Champion, you will focus on promoting physical health, fitness, and therapeutic group engagement. You will motivate patients to take part in physical activity, add structure to their day, and role model positive behaviours for patients and colleagues.
Alongside this specialist focus, you will carry out the full range of Healthcare Assistant duties, supporting personalised care, daily needs, and independence within the secure setting.
This is a visible, hands-on role requiring energy, creativity, resilience, and strong communication skills. The work can be demanding but highly rewarding, within a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to recovery-focused care.
If you want to make a genuine difference every day, we welcome your application.
As an integral and highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team you will provide support and practical assistance to service users for them to regain confidence in their skills and abilities to enable a successful re integration into the community.
You should demonstrate abilities to inspire hope and belief that recovery is possible in others. Ability to form relationships with patients and colleagues which are mutuality respectful, facilitate and support information sharing and understanding to achieve agreed goals
The role includes listening and talking with patients/relatives/carers, observing patients’ behaviour and promotion of safety consideration of the unit and individual.
To provide and co-ordinate meaningful group and activity sessions for service users. To develop activities with individuals and support people to use these.
To offer group-based sessions with a focus on health, fitness and recovery.
To work alongside the nursing team in provision of treatment interventions.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and personal specification for full details of responsibilities
To establish a supportive and respectful relationship with service users.
Have a clear focus on promoting physical health, fitness, and therapeutic group engagement, including engagement in physical activity and exercise opportunities to support physical and mental health
Help individuals identify their own achievable and meaningful recovery goals and set recovery objectives, drawing on individual resources and utilising a range of recovery tools, techniques and experience.
Model personal responsibility, self-awareness, self-belief to inspire and instil confidence
Uses own initiative and job-related training in deciding on the approach and interventions required when working with a service user in delivering support, although supervision is available.
Teach coping, self-help and self-management techniques
Support service users to identify and overcome fears and within a relationship of empathy, trust and honesty, challenge negative self-talk.
Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behaviour towards other multi-disciplinary team members, service users and carers.
Always have a focus on the rights of service users.
Ensure that recovery goals are integrated into the Trusts CPA process and are reviewed on a regular basis, liaising closely with primary nurses as necessary.
Work in a way that acknowledges the personal, social, cultural and spiritual strengths and needs of the individual.
To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.
Support other members of the multi-disciplinary team in promoting a recovery orientated environment and in identifying recovery focused activities imparting information/education as required.
To demonstrate care and compassion in your work.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026