Activity Worker

4 months ago


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

There is an exciting opportunity available for an Activity Worker to join the 'family' on Abbeygate 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. Abbeygate Ward looks after older people in West Suffolk who have a physical health and a mental health need. Some of the inpatient beds on Abbeygate Ward are for the care of people with dementia.

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.

**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.

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.


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