Activity Coordinator inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED
TUE 7 JAN 2025
Candidates for this role should adopt a non-judgmental and pragmatic approach while respecting and accommodating individual patient values and beliefs. Responsibilities include leading recreational activities, ensuring the safety and proper use of materials, and working both indoors and outdoors. Moreover, the Trust values diversity and invites applications from individuals with lived experience in mental health, emphasizing accessibility and flexibility in recruitment processes.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides community health, mental health, learning disability and social care services for people across Hampshire and its surrounding area. The Trust aims to provide high quality, safe services which improve the health, well-being and independence of the people it serves.
As part of the Trust Acute & Crisis Division, you will be a key member of the patient pathways team providing excellent mental health care to people in the local area. You will be leading and influencing change during an exciting time of transformation for the specialty.
This post is based at Antelope House, Mental Health Unit in Southampton.
This role is designed to support the provision of a seven-day service of activities that are based on providing activities and coordinating with AHP (Allied Health Professional) service provision.
It will involve provision of group and individual activities that provide meaningful activity and structure to a patient's day in support of developing ways of coping and enhancing recovery.
This role is aimed at reducing boredom and frustration for patients on the inpatient wards. These emotions are often a precursor to incidents of dysregulation or agitation.
The fulfilment of the role will need to be co-produced through community meetings and patient care plans to ensure the delivery is aimed at the current inpatients needs.
We would welcome applications for people with lived experience within mental health.
Provision of activities as designed and requested by patients over seven day a week service provision. Working closely with AHP colleagues to coordinate a timetable of offer.
To help patients identify their own recovery goals and what is meaningful to them.
It is not essential to have a full UK driving licence as we like to encourage patients to access the community via public transport as they will require this skill when they move on.
Parts of your role will require working outside e.g. sport related activities, walks, as well as accessing the community to gather resources.
To adopt a pragmatic and non-judgemental approach.
To provide structured opportunities for people to relax and socialise.
Explain principles, techniques, and safety procedures to participants in recreational activities, and demonstrate use of materials and equipment.
To act in a manner to respect and accommodate the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, supporting the individual to fulfil these.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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