Activity Coordinator

To carry out the role of an activities co-ordinator within an acute mental health inpatient unit. This will involve the planning and delivery of a range of relevant and meaningful social, recreational, and therapeutic activities, both within the hospital setting and in the community. A specific focus of this post will be the development and provision of activities during the evenings and weekends. The activities will be required to meet the needs of the patient group as a whole in addition to tailor made programmes to reflect the assessed needs within individual care plans. As patient needs fluctuate rapidly, the nature of the service and activity programmes will need to be fluid, dynamic, and promote a recovery ethos.
To assist in clinical practice, promote equality for all individuals, manage information, and maintain resources.
Contribute to service development of activity provision on the acute wards, including participation in audit and research, care plans, and discharge planning.
This job will include a £2000 per annum environmental allowance; however, reducing restrictive practices and completing the course is mandatory for this job role.
To work a rotation of weekend shifts and shifts to be discussed during the interview.
Do you have a passion for health care?
Do you have creative skills that you can use to engage patients in an acute setting.
If so, there is an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as an activity coordinator to work along side occupational therapists, nurses, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
We are looking for a creative individual who can use their own skills along with our resources to engage patients and support them in their recovery journey.
The aim of the role is to provide interventions in order to improve the service users quality of life. The role includes facilitating a program of social, creative, and skills-based activities.
Duties
The activities coordinator will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a range of group and individual social and recreational activities on and off the ward on a consistent basis.
The activities coordinator will ensure that a range of activities and suitable resources are available for other staff to utilise in their absence to ensure continuity of activity provision.
Participate in delivering, monitoring, and evaluating individual care plans in relation to individuals’ participation in activity.
Actively involve patients in deciding and planning their participation in activities and ensure that this reflects patients assessed needs.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
- The activities co-ordinator will be responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of a range of group and individual social / recreational activities on and off the ward on a consistent basis.
- The activities co-ordinator will ensure that a range of activities and suitable resources are available for other staff to utilize in their absence to ensure continuity of activity provision.
- Participate in delivering, monitoring and evaluating individual care plans in relation to individuals’ participation in activity.
- Actively involve patients in deciding and planning their participation in activities and ensure that this reflects patients assessed needs.
- Liaison with nursing staff, occupational therapy staff and the multidisciplinary team and patients to ensure a well structured time table of available activities.
- Work with occupational therapy staff to ensure that service users have access to meaningful occupation and create, evaluate, and maintain links with all relevant community r