Activities Co-ordinator

The role of Activities Coordinator at Elysium Healthcare's Stanley House service is to create an engaging and enriching environment for the residents, focusing on their social, recreational, and leisure activities. The successful candidate will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to plan and implement activities tailored to the individual needs and interests of the service users, promoting their wellbeing and enabling them to participate in local community-based resources.

As an Activities Coordinator, you will be responsible for coordinating a range of social and recreational activities for the service users within the secure environment. This will involve obtaining information about their interests, observing their behavior and progress, and documenting your findings. You will work under supervision, ensuring that health, safety, and security standards are maintained. The role requires basic group work skills, awareness of mental health and its impact, and the ability to communicate effectively and work within a team.

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees, providing a unique approach to the delivery of care across various specialties, including Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, and Children & Education. With a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people, Elysium offers excellent opportunities for professional development and growth.

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

Working 37.5hours 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 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:

• Basic group work skills
• Minimum of 12 months experience within a mental health setting (Desirable)
• Ability to communicate effectively and work within a team-based framework.
• Initiative and motivation.
• Awareness of Mental Health and its impact on functioning.
• Solution-focused approach to problem-solving.
• Good organisational skills.
• Awareness of gender-specific needs.
• Awareness of the cultural needs of service users.
• Full UK Drivers License

Where you will be working:

Bosbury, Hereford, Herefordshire,HR8 1HB
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