Are you passionate about empowering people to improve their mental wellbeing and support for ongoing recovery? We have an exciting opportunity for a Wellbeing Activities Worker to join our Oxford team. This new role is all about expanding the support we offer to clients, focusing on mental wellbeing and ongoing recovery. Your work will help connect people with their communities, reduce the risk of hospital admission and rough sleeping, sustain people’s tenancies and enable clients to reconnect with and explore new hobbies by providing holistic mental health and wellbeing support. As a Wellbeing Activities Worker you will work across different settings within the community, clients’ accommodation, and day centres to engage and support people experiencing homelessness. Key responsibilities include: Design and deliver 1:1/group sessions and activities to promote good mental wellbeing – such as healthy cooking, exercise, mindfulness, gardening, creative projects, volunteering, and community-based activities. Empower clients to access opportunities, attend appointments, and build confidence, resilience, and social networks. Collaborate with colleagues and clients on recovery plans, helping set and achieve goals that improve mental wellbeing; may include identifying training, volunteering, and employment opportunities. Manage clients’ budgets and personalisation funds, and maintain accurate records such as risk assessments and case notes. Recruit and supervise peer volunteers, and ensure client voices help shape service delivery. Build strong partnerships with local mental health and wellbeing services. Your normal working hours will be (Mon-Fri) on site. About you We are looking for someone who can work creatively, and inspire clients to take positive steps to improve their mental wellbeing. If you bring the below we would love to hear from you: Experience of inspiring and empowering vulnerable people with complex needs, to identify and achieve goals that aim to improve their wellbeing. Team working and collaboration skills to work across different services to overcome barriers for those facing multiple disadvantages. Understanding of homelessness and the challenges that impact engagement in wellbeing support. Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage your time and build relationships with clients, colleagues, and partners. Knowledge of action planning and confidence using IT systems for administration and reporting. Experience delivering activities, in both 1:1 and group sessions. Above all, you will be passionate about helping people rebuild their lives and ready to create new opportunities that make a real difference. How to apply To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document’ tab on the advert page on our website. When you are ready to apply click the ‘Apply Now’ Button to start your online application form. Closing date: 10am on 7 January 2026 Interviews and assessments on 20-21 January 2026 About Us Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night. What We Offer We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients. Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience: A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ, Womens Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks. Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process. A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme. Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness. In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website. Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion page. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them. These include: Agile working model for suitable roles. Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements. 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service. Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave. Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options. Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%. Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice. Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans. Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more. Want to find out more? Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Work For Us page. At St Mungo’s we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s. These include: Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals. Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression. Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities. A DBS disclosure check is a requirement for this post and will be undertaken for the successful candidate. Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates. Documents