Health Care of Older People Activity Coordinator

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job description

Health Care of Older People Activity Coordinator

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

This is an exciting opportunity to come and work as part of the Activity Coordinator team, within Occupational Therapy, on the Health Care of Older People wards at NUH.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 activity co-ordinators to join our Health Care of Older people Therapies team at Nottingham University Hospitals. The team works across both City and QMC campuses, and the roles will cover both sites.

The post holders will be passionate about working with older people, and able to engage them in meaningful activities while they are in hospital. Working closely with and under the supervision of the Therapies team, the post holders will deliver 1:1 and group activities to inpatients on our acute wards. The activities will be evidence based, and person centred. The post holders will have the ability to engage with patients with dementia and delirium, and to adapt their approach to work with a wide population of patients. They will work to improve patient experience of hospital stays, and to maintain or rehabilitate patient's physical and cognitive skills.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you will need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To provide meaningful, evidence based, person centred activities for both individuals and groups of patients.
2. To plan, prepare and carry out the appropriate level of meaningful activity with patients, and to progress activity programmes under appropriate guidance from qualified therapy staff.
3. To work with a range of evidence based approaches, in order to meet a range of patient need on the acute wards.
4. To ensure that all activity provision, and all use of resources relating to activity, is in accordance with relevant Trust Policy.
5. To actively consider all aspects of risk management whilst carrying out clinical and non-clinical duties.
6. Maintain an ability to safely and competently assist with the handling and moving of patients when this is required therapeutically, including the safe use of all relevant manual handling equipment, plus wheelchairs and electric beds.

You will be provided with regular supervision by the Occupational Therapy team. We have received praise from Health Education England East Midlands regarding the quality of our learning environment.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as an activity co-ordinator with in-patients on acute wards within the trust, under the guidance and supervision of qualified therapy staff.

The post holder will develop the provision of a varied and ongoing programme of individual and group based evidence based activities for in-patients.

The post holder will maximise the range of evidence based activities that can be provided on acute wards, in order to improve patient experience of hospital stays, to maintain or rehabilitate in-patients physical and cognitive skills, and to contribute towards discharge planning processes.

The post holder will work alongside others engaged in the delivery of meaningful activity on acute wards, in order to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient activity programmes.

Please see the attached full Job Description and Personal Specification for further details.

You will be required to wear PPE as led by Infection Prevention and Control policies.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Basic literacy and Numeracy skills
• Willingness to develop basic skills and competencies relevant to the role
• Level 3 NVQ or QCF in a health care subject or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience of caring for older people in health/social care setting
• Working with people with mental health problems
• Experience in occupational therapy

Communication

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work within a team and individually.
• Ability to deal calmly with patients with distressed or anxious behaviour.

Planning and Organisational skills

• Take responsibility for planning, organising and preparing activities for In-Patients within an acute ward setting.
• Experience organising activities with patients.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Advance Practitioner Occupational Therapist: HCOP

£24,625 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata