Enhanced Care Team Activity Co-ordinator

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Radford Semele; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking candidates to join their Enhanced Care Team at Warwick Hospital. The role involves delivering activities to engage patients meaningfully and requires experience with mental health and a passion for various activities. Successful applicants will have strong organizational skills, enthusiasm, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with or supporting people who have experience of mental ill health, Autism, Learning Disability or trauma is beneficial.
• Ability to demonstrate a kind approach and enthusiasm for the role.
• Good organizational skills and ability to work alone and as part of a team are essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver activities independently to engage patients in meaningful activities.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide therapeutic day care.
• Provide support and practical assistance without direct supervision.

Skills

Experience with mental ill health

Enthusiasm for activities

Organizational skills

Resilience

Basic IT skills

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our brand-new Enhanced Care Team at Warwick Hospital.

Responsibilities

The post holders will deliver activities independently and maintain resources for other members of the team to engage the patients in meaningful activity, when they are not on the ward.

We welcome applications from individuals who have range of interests in doing, particularly those who have a passion or skill in one or more activities: Exercise, music and creative activities. The post holder will work as part of the multi‑disciplinary team to provide a meaningful and therapeutic day for the patient group. They will do this through providing physically and mentally creative, stimulating and reminiscence activities. Support and practical assistance will be provided by the post holder without the direct supervision of registered staff.

These activities will take place on acute and elective inpatient ward settings and can include situations requiring exposure to bodily fluids and behaviours that challenge.

Qualifications

Experience of working with or supporting people who have experience of mental ill health, Autism, Learning Disability or trauma is beneficial. Ability to demonstrate a kind approach, enthusiasm for the role, resilience, physical fitness and basic IT skills are essential.

The successful candidates will have genuine skills and interest in doing a variety of different activities, motivating people, and will have lots of initiative, good organisational skills and be able to work alone and as part of a team.

Benefits

This is a rewarding and evolving role where you will influence the quality of enhanced care across the acute hospital setting, supported by a collaborative and committed team to ensure we meet the advancing demand of patients with additional needs.

About the Trust

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2