Assistant Activities Co-ordinator

Job summary

The Assistant Activities Co-ordinator role at Elysium Healthcare involves coordinating social and recreational activities for service users within a secure environment. The job requires a range of skills, including group work, communication, and problem-solving, to support individuals with mental health needs. The role is part of a multidisciplinary team and offers opportunities for career development and training.

Main duties of the job

As an Assistant Activities Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for creating 1-on-1 and group rapport with service users, planning and implementing activities based on their interests and needs, and working alongside the multidisciplinary team to develop links with community-based resources. You will also be required to observe and report on service users' behavior and progress, ensure health and safety standards are met, and demonstrate effective coordination and use of resources.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and agile company that provides a range of healthcare services across England and Wales. With a global network and over 8,000 employees, the company offers opportunities for growth and development within a supportive and inclusive environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Being an Assistant Activities Co-ordinator is so much more than just organising programmes. It's providing care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Working a week, you will join the team at Stanley House where you will create an activity-based culture, which will see you use technical and creative skills to assist in developing, delivering and coordinating programmes focused on social, recreational and leisure activities.

You will be responsible for creating 1-1 and group rapports with service users to help evolve and shape the activities to increase engagement. As you plan and implement activities around their interests, this should also have a strong emphasis on their individual needs to support the treatment plans.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will develop links with community-based resources to support service users to engage in local activities.

At Elysium, we want the best for you. That’s why you will have continuous access to a range of training courses to enable you to reach your career goals. After all, a better you means better care. That’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As an Assistant Activities Co-ordinator you will be :

• Co-ordinating social and recreational activities for service users within the secure environment who are unable to freely access public services.
• Obtaining information from service users regarding their social and recreational interests.
• Observing general behaviour, ability, and response of service users and report back regularly using verbal and written communications to appropriate team members.
• Under supervision documenting observations and progress in the service user's clinical notes.
• Fulfilling the security requirements of the service and adhere to service policies, guidelines, and procedures.
• Basic risk assessment on a day to day basis to individuals and groups of service users
• Ensuring that health and safety, welfare and security standards for service users, staff and their visitors are adhered to.
• Effective skills of co-ordination and use of resources.

To be successful in this role, you'll need :

Where you will be working :

Location :  Bosbury, Hereford, Herefordshire,HR8 1HB You will be working at Stanley House, a service which offers a multidisciplinary approach to its long term care provision and provides the specialised care and expert therapeutic intervention for those effected by the majority of known Neurological Conditions. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will support and enable residents to undergo reviews of their specific and / or changing needs. Stanley House offers therapies and activities which include Physiotherapy and Art therapy and receives input from a Professor in Neuropsychiatry and monthly specialist GP clinics.

What you will get :

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer :

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

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Qualifications

Essential

Salary : $24,960