Activity Co-ordinator - London, United Kingdom - West London NHS Trust

West London NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are looking for an enthusiastic Activity Coordinator who wants to work in our acute functional ward and Older People's Mental Health unit in Hammersmith and Fulham.

If you are an individual with a great creativity, passion and care for older people (70 years and over) who are living with mental health issues this may be an ideal job for you.

We have three different older people in-patient wards and each ward has a dedicated Activity Coordinator. These three coordinators work as a team although they are based on separate wards. This post will be based at Meridian ward and will be the Activity Coordinator. They will ensure there are skills and knowledge sharing and provide peer support to each other.

Meridian ward is a 16 bedded acute admission ward for people over the age of 70. We strive to treat all patients with dignity and respect. We aim to provide safe and compassionate care that responds to individual needs.

We still offer the same services with the addition of provision for older people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

We aspire to provide culturally, holistic and person centred care and environment where patients and families are supported through their recovery journey and they are actively involved in decision making.

The patients are admitted for assessment and treatment and will be discharged back to their own homes or to a care home placement as appropriate.

The care is delivered by an amazing multidisciplinary team working closely along side patients, carers and other relevant services.

This is an Activity Coordinator full time role ward-based.

There are other Care Coordinators within the service who the post holder will be a part of their small team.

They will also be an integral part of the Occupational Therapy team and the wider multidisciplinary team.

They will be responsible in delivering safe, meaningful and personalised activities to all the patient whilst they are on the ward.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.

We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

The purpose of this post is to engage with service users at various stages along their care pathway to support therapeutic input and engagement and specifically to plan and deliver programmes of activities (individual and group)
The post holder will work alongside occupational therapy staff to ensure a facilitation of safe, meaningful and personalised activities during patient stay on the wards. They will make sure planned activities are relevant to patient and their objectives and the skills they learn are transferable whenever they leave the ward
The postholder will be responsible in the delivery of individual and group activities with some level independence and autonomy, and will be required to work collaboratively with colleagues, clients, carers, health care professionals and volunteers. The post holder will be required to work creatively and flexibly, and will receive support and monthly supervision
In order to support optimum therapeutic opportunity, the post holder will be required to combine practical expertise, to model appropriate behaviours, and to support service users in developing social and task skills.