Activities Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the Redwood 2 team as their new Activity Co-Ordinator.

The role will be full time, Monday to Friday 9-5 however there is some flexibility around this.

The role will be ward based, although there will be times when activities will take place out of the ward environment.

Work will be on a 1:1 and a group basis.

The role works closely with the ward team and also with OT team and Live team.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the Redwood 2 team as their new Activity Co-Ordinator.

The role will involve working with patients on the ward and with the ward therapy and nursing teams to plan and facilitate daily individual and group activity programmes, which provide therapeutic and meaningful social and physical activities, enhancing patient's quality of life and supporting their physical and psychological well-being.

Activities would generally be ward based however there is opportunity to organise and facilitate activities off the ward with patients. The time of work would be flexible, including doing later evenings to facilitate evening activities if this was deemed appropriate, helpful and supportive to patient recovery.

The role will involve working with patients with mental health issues, which will require you to be creative in your approach and ideas in engaging these patients in activity and making these activities meaningful.

You will need to be able to work under your own initiative with guidance from the Ward Manager, Nursing and Therapy team.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

To assist in the provision of a varied and ongoing programme of therapeutic social activity for patients (on an individual and group basis).

To maximise the range of therapeutic activity that can be provided to enhance the quality of life of patients.

To work closely with the Ward Manager and Occupational Therapists in identifying new developmental opportunities for complementary and therapeutic activity.