Activities Assistant
7 months ago
**Introduction**:
As a Activities Assistant, you will be responsible for managing and organising social and recreation activities at Adderley Green** **for service users who are unable to freely access public services.
Adderley Green provides specialist inpatient neurological rehabilitation and complex care for people with neurological illnesses, acquired brain and spinal cord injuries.
You will develop a rapport with service users to encourage them to participate in their interests and activities. For service users who have reduced contact with relatives and friends, you will encourage social recreation.
**Your responsibilities**:
- Co-ordinate social and recreational activities for service users within the secure environment who are unable to freely access public services.
- To obtain information from service users regarding their social and recreational interests.
- To observe general behaviour, ability, and response of service users and report back regularly using verbal and written communications to appropriate team members.
- Under supervision document observations and progress in the service user's clinical notes.
- To fulfill the security requirements of the service and adhere to service policies, guidelines, and procedures.
- Basic risk assessment on a day to day basis to individuals and groups of service users
- To ensure that health and safety, welfare and security standards for service users, staff and their visitors are adhered to.
- Effective skills of co-ordination and use of resources.
**To be successful in this role, you'll need**:
- Basic group work skills
- Minimum of 12 months experience within a mental health setting (Desirable)
- Ability to communicate effectively and work within a team-based framework.
- Initiative and motivation.
- Awareness of Mental Health and its impact on functioning.
- Solution-focused approach to problem-solving.
- Good organisational skills.
- Ability to work flexibly to meet service and service user's needs.
- Awareness of gender-specific needs.
- Awareness of the cultural needs of service users.
- Prepared to drive hospital transport.
**What you will get**:
- Annual salary of £21,548
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check, holiday financing and much more.
**About your next employer**
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
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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