Recreational Activities Co-ordinator

6 months ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

As a recreational co-ordinator you will have responsibility for co-ordinating a service that provides recreational activities for in-patients at the Hartington Unit.

You will need to ensure there is a co-ordinated Recreational Service that enhances the service user's stay in hospital and utilise the Hub's space and provide a range of activities. This will conclude community working to create and sustain working partnerships with other agencies.

The post holder will embed the recovery philosophy into the programmes in an appropriate way using groups and one to one methods of engaging service users.

They will source and plan for specialist providers, speakers and facilitators to provide groups as appropriate, and build partnerships with community providers.

The service also aims to promote resilience with people in an acute part of their illness to be supported in their homes and communities to prevent admission to hospital wherever possible.

The role will provide a high quality, meaningful recreational activity service for inpatients who are in acute and sub acute stages of mental illness.

The role involves organising a staff rota for the Recreational Team over a seven day period and out of hours.

It involves introducing service users to the Recreational Service, organising, planning and facilitating recreational activities; to be offered clinical support and work under the supervision of Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist.

The post holder will promote social inclusion, and enhance the autonomy of the service user.

This will involve initiating and sustaining a respectful, consistent and reliable approach with the service users, that enhances their ability to build social networks and work in partnership with other agencies.

As a member of the Hartington Unit Recreational Team, the post holder will be expected to adopt the policies and philosophy of the service.

The post holder will present a positive image of the Recreational Service and to the Trust, service users, carers and the community as a whole.

The purpose of a Recovery and Resilience Service is to provide a high standard of person centred care.

The service will be inpatient and community facing and recovery focused. It will promote compassionate treatment and care in a safe and therapeutic setting for people in an acute stage of their illness. It will enable supported and sustainable transition from inpatient to community services.

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”

**Benefits include**:

- Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
- 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service
- Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Incremental pay progression
- Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
- Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
- Structured learning and development opportunities

The post holder will support the delivery of a quality recreational service, working as the lead for the Recreational Team with the support and supervision of the Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist.
- Build awareness of the recovery philosophy and the social inclusion agenda, promoting autonomy and enabling choice.
- Support service-users by prompting them to attend recreational activities, where necessary and maintaining specified levels of engagement.
- Carry out a wide range of individual and group activities, as directed by the needs of the service.
- Undertake a range of activities, working flexibly in accordance with the needs of service-users and the service as a whole.
- Comply with the administrative duties including statistics and production of publicity information.
- Demonstrate effective time management when preparing and running activities.
- To facilitate service user responsibility, choices and participation, within the recreational activities.
- Complete environmental risk assessments, activity risk assessments and ensure the trust group work policy is adhered to. To highlight and report any findings to the Clinical lead Occupational Therapist.
- Reports any changes in occupational functioning that may indicate either positive or negative effects of treatment and communicate these to the Occupational Therapists and the Hub team.
- Assist in the co-ordination of care by communicating effectively and ensuring that Trust professional guidelines for record-keeping are followed -writing notes as required.
- Ensure that as



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