Activities Coordinator

3 days ago


Swindon, United Kingdom Elysium Healthcare Full time

Being an Activities Coordinator is so much more than just organising programmes. It's providing care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society so they can do something they couldn't do before. It's what delivering great healthcare shouldfeel like.

Working 37.5 hours a week, you will join the team at Avalon Centre and create an activity-based culture, which will see you use technical and creative skills to assist in developing, delivering and coordinating programmes focused on social, recreationaland leisure activities.

You will be responsible for creating 1-1 rapports with service users to help evolve and shape the activities to increase engagement. As you plan and implement activities around their interests, this should also have a strong emphasis on their individualneeds to support the treatment plans.

At Avalon Centre, you will be supported and guided as you co-deliver a meaningful activity programme, based on a therapeutic approach to care. You will ensure that all service users have access to therapeutic interventions to meet their recovery needs.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will develop links with community-based resources to support service users to engage in local activities. You'll develop roles and routines, which will support occupational participation and encourage serviceusers to adopt a more active lifestyle.

You will prepare, risk assess and implement a range of activities and events, and will contribute to gathering assessment information, where you will record facilitated sessions.

A range of training opportunities are available that can see your career grow and you achieve your career aspirations.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- To coordinate and facilitate the transdisciplinary delivered neurobehavioral rehabilitation core group session timetable
- To manage and organize social and recreation activities for patients within the secure environment who are unable to freely access public services.
- To obtain information from patients regarding their social and recreational interests and golas for rehabilitation.
- To embrace a transdisciplinary approach to neurobehavioral rehabilitation with excellent observation, communication and IT skills, working closely with our Psychology led onsite specialist therapists
- To fulfill the security requirements of the service and adhere to service policies, guidelines, and procedures.
- To be competent in ongoing and robust risk assessment on a day to day basis of patients in preparation for and delivery of individual and group sessions
- To ensure that health and safety, welfare and security standards for patients, staff and their visitors are adhered to.
- To demonstrate effective skills of co-ordination, development and use of resources.

**To be successful as Activity Coordinator, you'll need**:

- Experience of public speaking/group work/mentoring/educator skills (Desirable)
- Experience within a mental health/acquired brain injury setting (Desirable)
- Ability to communicate effectively and work within a Transdisciplinary team-based approach.
- Initiative and motivation and positive 'can do' attitude.
- Awareness of Mental Health/Neurobehavioural Disability and its impact on functioning.
- Solution-focused approach to problem-solving.

**What you will get**:

- Annual salary of £19,500 + £24,000 + Benefits
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Free meals
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.

**About your next employer**

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales, providing four services including: Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities& Autism, Children & Education, there is an opportunity for you to grow and move with Elysium.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.


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