Health Care of Older People Activity Coordinator

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to come and work as part of the Activity Coordinator team, within Occupational Therapy, on the Health Care of Older People wards at NUH.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an activity co-ordinator to join our Health Care of Older people Therapies team at Nottingham University Hospitals. The team works across both City and QMC campuses, and the role will cover both sites. Both posts are full time although part time options will be considered ( minimum of 0.5 WTE each)

The post holders will be passionate about working with older people, and able to engage them in meaningful activities while they are in hospital. Working closely with and under the supervision of the Therapies team, the post holders will deliver 1:1 and group activities to inpatients on our acute wards. The activities will be evidence based, and person centred. The post holder will have the ability to engage with patients with dementia and delirium, and to adapt their approach to work with a wide population of patients. They will work to improve patient experience of hospital stays, and to maintain or rehabilitate patient's physical and cognitive skills.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you will need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

To provide meaningful, evidence based, person centred activities for both individuals and groups of patients.

To plan, prepare and carry out the appropriate level of meaningful activity with patients, and to progress activity programmes under appropriate guidance from qualified therapy staff.

To work with a range of evidence based approaches, in order to meet a range of patient need on the acute wards.

To ensure that all activity provision, and all use of resources relating to activity, is in accordance with relevant Trust Policy.

To actively consider all aspects of risk management whilst carrying out clinical and non-clinical duties.

Maintain an ability to safely and competently assist with the handling and moving of patients when this is required therapeutically, including the safe use of all relevant manual handling equipment, plus wheelchairs and electric beds.

You will be provided with regular supervision by the Occupational Therapy team. We have received praise from Health Education England East Midlands regarding the quality of our learning environment.

About us

With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.