Activity Worker

7 days ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us

**JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

This potential change to government policy means that the Trust has paused** **activity relating to this and will not be asking you to provide evidence of** **a vaccination at this time. If you are successfully appointed into a post we will keep you updated with how any changes in law will affect you.

**Job overview**:
There is an exciting opportunity available for an Activity Worker to join the 'family' on Northgate and Southgate wards at Wedgwood House in supporting people through their mental health journey. We pride ourselves on working together and supporting each other to provide the best care possible for those using our service.

**Main duties of the job**:
Are you an ace at Activities, excellent at promoting engagement and superb at supporting people with mental health needs? If so, we want you on Northgate and Southgate

As a unit we pride ourselves on working together to deliver high quality care and to support each other through any challenging times.

We recognise that working with the same methods doesn't work forever; and we will continue to challenge the way we do things to create the best services we can, centred on the people who use them.

We are focused on Quality Improvement led care delivery and are looking for energetic people who want to make a difference and be part of dynamic teams who like to think outside of the box. The development of activity worker roles is an example of this and is seen as a way to support activity and engagement for those people admitted to hospital.

**Working for our organisation**:
**Benefits**

Benefits included with this role are:

- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- gym membership
- NHS discounts and many more.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
We value life skills, lived experience and a commitment to work with us to meet the needs of the ward. We are keen to integrate individuals existing skills into the services we are able to provide, as well as supporting personal and professional development through additional training.

**Person specification**:
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience working within Mental Health setting

**Desirable criteria**:

- Worked in inpatient mental health settings

**skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- activity / group work skills

**Desirable criteria**:

- qualifications relevant to post

**knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- evidence of knowledge related to acute mental illness

**Desirable criteria**:

- qualifications relevant to mental health

**Recovery Focus**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Patient centred focus to care

**Desirable criteria**:

- knowledge of recovery / ImROC
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES_
- Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.- Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).- DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
- Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so._
- The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearan


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