Community Recreational and Engagement Worker

3 months ago

Colchester, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post holder will be responsible for facilitating service user activity provision and safe discharge from the service back to the community. This includes recreational, social and educational group and individual activities to service users who are resident on the ward. The post holder will also support with facilitating service user access to community activities outside of the unit in order to meet identified goals. The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team (Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Allied Health Professionals and Arts Therapies) in implementing care plans that promote service user empowerment and provide high quality, individualised care, which addresses the needs of the service users and meets individual health needs. The post holder will also support with the safe and effective discharge of service users from the inpatient service to the community.- Lead, plan, promote, deliver and evaluate recreational, social and educational activities in accordance with the service user’s needs to meet goals identified by the MDT.
- Support service users to access activities both within and outside of the unit that support their interests and recovery.
- Ensure all service users are aware of activities which may be of benefit to them and how they can be accessed.
- Initiate, develop and implement new activities in response to service users’ needs.
- Actively promote the benefit of undertaking therapeutic activity within the inpatient setting to service users and other team members.
- Contribute to the monitoring of the physical environment ensuring that it is safe and conducive to the therapeutic work of the unit, including ensuring appropriate materials are prepared for use in activities, monitoring potential risks.
- Contribute towards the ongoing quality of service and care and identify any risk issues in within an agreed and monitored supervisory framework.
- Provide support to service users in all elements of their daily living where appropriate.
- Carry out practical tasks, identified as part of the service user’s care plan alongside completion of supportive observations.
- Provide support to the service user and the MDT during the transition and discharge process to facilitate successful discharge of the person to the community.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
**Our Trust values are**:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on ”

**Job Title**: Community Recreational Engagement Worker

**Pay Band**: Band 4

**Responsible to**: Inpatient Team Leader

**Accountable to**: Modern Matron

**Base**: Lexden Hospital, Colchester
Our Services
We provide mental health and social care services - including Adults of Working Age, Older Adults, Children and Adolescents and Specialist Learning Disabilities services.

The Trust works in close partnership with Hertfordshire County Council and also with other NHS organisations to promote and support mental health in the community. We also provide specialist learning disability services in Norfolk, Buckinghamshire and North Essex.
Our Mission
We help people of all ages live their lives to their full potential by supporting them to keep mentally and physically well.

Everything we do is aimed at providing consistently high quality, joined up care, support and treatment that:

- Empowers individuals to manage their mental and physical wellbeing
- Keeps people safe from avoidable harm
- Is effective and ensures the very best clinical and individual recovery outcomes
- Provides the best possible experience

Our Visi

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