Activity Coordinator

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Fareham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a role delivering recreational activities across the unit to support recovery and wellbeing. You will work with nursing and occupational therapy teams to run group and individual sessions seven days a week, including evenings, helping service users engage in meaningful activities.

You will promote activity as part of care, monitor progress, and maintain records in line with Trust standards, contributing to

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Work with service users to identify meaningful activities.
• Develop activity programmes for the unit.
• Monitor, evaluate and modify activities to meet the needs of service users with support from the occupational therapy and nursing teams.
• Demonstrate understanding of the importance of activity to mental health and wellbeing and to articulate and promote the importance of engagement in this setting.
• Work within appropriate service/clinical guidelines such as the MHA, in the planning and delivery of group and individual activities which engage clients.
• Assist and supervise service users to use exercise equipment.
• Contribute to nursing assessment and treatment of service users including physical health and risk monitoring.
• Ensure that written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Trust standards
• Maintain effective communication regarding activities with services users, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and others as appropriate.
• Work as an integrated member of the MDT.
• Ensure that any information related to service users or other personal safety is communicated immediately to the nurse in charge of the ward.
• Promote service users' involvement in all aspects of their care.
• Have knowledge of risk assessment and management tools currently in use within the service and to provide care for service users within those guidelines.
• Recognise potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly until assistance arrives.

Job description

The post holder will deliver a range of recreational activities which are accessible and meaningful to service users in order to:

• help individuals exercise choice in how to structure their time
• provide a sense of enjoyment and satisfaction
• offer opportunity to take part in current interests or develop new ones and therefore contribute to their own recovery.

The post holder will develop and support service users to engage in programmes of physical and creative activity meeting the needs of service users of varying functional and physical ability. The post holer well engage service users, across the unit, in group or individual sessions. Working alongside the nursing and occupational therapy teams, to contribute to a 7-day programme which includes evenings. The post holder will encourage and support service users with self-occupation and autonomous activity. The post holder will support service users during their treatment in hospital by instilling the importance of activity for mental health and offering emotional and functional support when required.

Main duties of the job

• Work with service users to identify meaningful activities.
• Develop activity programmes for the unit.
• Monitor, evaluate and modify activities to ensure they meet the needs of service users with support from the occupational therapy and nursing teams.
• Demonstrate understanding of the importance of activity to mental health and wellbeing and to articulate and promote the importance of engagement in this setting.
• Work within appropriate service/clinical guidelines such as the MHA, in the planning and delivery of group and individual activities which engage clients.
• Assist and supervise service users to use exercise equipment.
• Contribute to nursing assessment and treatment of service users including physical health and risk monitoring.
• Ensure that written and electronic records and activity data are maintained in accordance with Trust standards
• Maintain effective communication regarding activities with services users, carers, the multi-disciplinary team and others as appropriate.
• Work as an integrated member of the MDT.
• Ensure that any information related to service users or other personal safety is communicated immediately to the nurse in charge of the ward.
• Promote service users' involvement in all aspects of their care.
• Have knowledge of risk assessment and management tools currently in use within the service and to provide care for service users within those guidelines.
• Recognise potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly until assistance arrives.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.