Band 3 Engagement, Activity & Physical Health Practitioner

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider in Bristol is seeking an Engagement, Activity, and Physical Health Practitioner to work within a medium secure setting. The role involves engaging with service users to introduce a variety of activities and requires flexibility in shifts. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team, providing valuable feedback and developing sustainable services for users. Regular support and supervision will be provided.

Qualifications

• Ability to engage with service users who have serious and enduring mental illness.
• Experience in introducing activities such as social, recreational, vocational, and physical.
• Flexibility to work a range of shifts.

Responsibilities

• Explore and introduce broad activities for service users.
• Work as part of multi-disciplinary team and provide feedback.
• Develop new and existing activities for service users.

Job description

Job overview

Secure Services has an opportunity for an Engagement, Activity, and Physical Health Practitioner (EAPH) to join our team within a medium secure setting.

This role will entail working with service users with serious and enduring mental illness in order to carry out assessments of the interests and activities of each of our service users within Secure Services. This will include exploring and introducing a broad range of activities i.e. social, recreational, vocational and physical activities.

This role can be challenging. Our service user group are not always easy to engage due to the nature of their mental illness. You will be provided with regular support and supervision from both the ward team and other disciplines such as occupational therapists.

Main duties of the job

This will include exploring and introducing a broad range of social, recreational, vocational and physical activities outside of the mental health service, to promote social inclusion and to negotiate activities with individuals and groups.

You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and provide feedback both on our electronic systems and verbally in handovers and patient care reviews.

You will need to be forward thinking and flexible to meet the needs of the service.

You will need to develop both new and existing activities to provide a safe, valued and sustainable service.

You will be expected to work a range of shifts from early, mids and late shifts.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.