Enhanced Care Team Activity Co-ordinator

Job responsibilities

Communication Skills and Working Relationships:

To work collaboratively with other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT).

Promote effective communication with all patients/clients, colleagues, other health care staff and visitors to the Trust, projecting a professional image at all times.

To support the teams and work with the ward managers in creating therapeutic and dementia friendly care environments.

Working with the clinical staff to reduce the risks of harms such as institutionalisation, falls or antipsychotic prescribing, through planned activities with targeted individuals based on individual care plans. Liaising with the MDT to identify the individuals in greatest need of one to one intervention.

To observations and changes in an individuals presentation both through verbal and documentary mechanisms. ensure effective communication with the team, accurately reporting .

Ensure that the Admiral Nurses are aware of inpatients with a dementia and their carers.

Promote amongst staff and visitors the This is Me document and Butterfly Scheme. Review completed This is Me Documents and advise MDT of information that will facilitate and enhance care interventions.

Developing positive working relationships with all members of the medical, nursing and therapy teams.

Working with a variety of students, volunteers, apprentices and work experience individuals to ensure that they have a welcoming and beneficial learning experience during their time on the inpatient setting.

Work with relatives and carers to prevent and resolve complaints at a local level. Report any concerns or complaints to the Nurse in charge and offer visitors PALS information if unable to resolve.

Analytical and Judgement Skills:

To understand and meet the needs of individual patients using a person centred approach and to encourage and motivate others to so the same.

Planning and Organisational Skills:

To provide a range of creative and social activities to stimulate and engage a diversity of individuals and groups of patients.

Planning and implementing a programme that provides a range of creative, stimulating and/or diversion activities that are suitable to the diverse individual patient/ groups needs, abilities and interests.

To organise and plan physical, social and reminiscence activities which help to promote independence and psychological well- being, structuring the patients day. work collaboratively with occupational and physiotherapy colleagues and integrate their recommendations into therapeutic activities.

Freedom to Act:

To exercise autonomy within the parameters agreed with the line manager in order to carry out your role.

Co-ordinate social dining at mealtimes and promote and support the Red Tray initiative, Red Table mats, Lets Do Lunch, Blue Plate and Finger Food options. Give therapy support in relation to nutrition and hydration as directed by dietician and SALT colleagues.

Management Responsibility:

Responsibility for Patient Care:

Dressing and undressing patients as part of a therapeutic intervention.

Ensuring patients are given the required assistance using the toilet as required during activity sessions (including urinals, commodes and bed pans).

Ensuring patients are given the required assistance to meet their dietary and fluid requirements reporting any concerns to the registered nurse as appropriate. providing additional refreshments to patients and their carers if needed.

Participating in and promoting good infection prevention & control practices.

Preparing for/and participating in food service, encouraging socialisation at meal times.

Work in line with the trust guidelines for increased supervision and the safe 6 specialling guidance when required to provide one to one care. provide support and advice to colleagues providing 1:1 care.

Responsibility for Policy/Service Development:

Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources:

Where delegated as such, to undertake specific duties in relation to the maintenance, cleaning and ordering of supplies.

In consultation with the line manager, identify and obtain resources to be used specifically within the role and ensure effective utilisation and storage with due regards for infection prevention, financial resources and risk related issues.

Ensure ward staffs have adequate supplies of This is Me, Butterfly Scheme resources and Dementia Care Bundles. Maintain the information leaflets available to visitors and carers on the ward.

Responsibility for Information Resources:

Answering the telephone in the manner required by all Trust employees.

Documentation of interactions with patients in the appropriate place.

Documenting significant conversations with visitors and carers in the appropriate place.

Completion of patient charts including but not exclusively, SKIN bundle, Intentional Rounding, food and fluid charts, bowel charts, pain assessments.

Individualising care plans for patients with specific planned activities.

Responsibility for Research and Development:

Physical Skills/Physical Effort:

To carry out specific tasks involving direct patient care without the direct supervision of the registered practitioners.

Participating in the moving and handling of patients/clients.

Assist ward staff in maintaining a safe, orderly, clean and tidy working environment for patient/client care.

Keep all activities resources and clean and tidy and in a designated storage space. Ensure all items are accounted for at the end of any activity and take steps to prevent theft of Trust Property.

Mental Effort:

Communicate sensitively with patients who have confusion, delirium or other illnesses that can result in difficulties in comprehension and social interaction.

Emotional Effort:

To contribute to maintaining a welcoming, safe and positive physical and emotional care environment.

General Items:

To provide short-term cover for colleagues during periods of leave.

To ensure that all Trust standards are maintained and monitored to improve the quality of care to all whom come into contact with services provided by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Every employee has a duty to take reasonable care of the health and safety of themselves and of other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work, and to co-operate with the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust to ensure that statutory and Trust regulations are complied with.

To participate in appraisals and personal reviews and work to achieve agreed set objectives.

To participate in appropriate training and development activities.

To participate in team, professional and personal development activities and promote commitment to continuous development and improvement.

Ensure that all staff consciously review mistakes, complaints and incidents/near misses as well as successes to improve performance and the level of customer care.

All employees will have an organisational and individual responsibility towards safeguarding vulnerable adults, young people and children. Where employees are working with children, young people and families they have a responsibility to cooperate in national safeguarding policy around early intervention activities appropriate to improving health outcomes.

As a major provider of health care, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust operate a Smoke Free Policy by providing a totally smoke free environment to help aid patients recovery, promote health and wellbeing and minimize the risks of complications attributed to smoking tobacco and second hand smoke.

Recognise the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles and be aware of health and wellbeing initiatives.

To abide by Infection Prevention and Control policies relevant to their area of work, and undertake the necessary level of training. This will be appraised through the KSF review process or other relevant professional review process.

To contribute to promoting and implementing the Trust's Carbon Management policy, in line with team and organisational objectives.

Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of attaining basic level of education (numeracy and literacy).
• Commitment to further professional experience/knowledge.
• First Aid at Work Certificate.
• Dementia awareness training.
• Computer literacy/ basic IT skills.
• Awareness of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, young people and children's responsibilities.

Desirable

• Level Three NVQ completed or equivalent or working towards.
• Enhanced Dementia Training.
• Qualification in Reminiscence Therapy

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience in a care or therapy setting.
• Activity co-ordination/ group reminiscence experience.
• Experience of working with persons with a dementia.
• Experience of organising group activities, outings, parties etc.
• Evidence of ability to maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, patients and visitors.

Desirable

• Experience with multi-professional team
• Experience of working with people with special requirements e.g. impaired sight or hearing, other disabilities

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills - verbal/written.
• Able to undertake a range of physical care interventions as directed by qualified staff.
• Ability to accurately pass on information clearly and precisely.
• Able to promote professional image.
• Awareness of confidentiality requirements.
• Ability to work in a team and independently.
• Able to carry out delegated duties without direct supervision, able to prioritise and organise own workload.

Desirable

• Skills in the arts/crafts -Drama -Creative activities -Art/Drawing -Music -Local history

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Organisational skills.
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Ability to work in a team as well as work autonomously.
• Reliable, punctual.

Desirable

• Ability to motivate self and others.
• Creative and innovative.

Other

Essential

• Flexible in working shift patterns and adapting with the needs of the service which may include evenings or weekends and bank holidays and within the acute site in all departments as needed.
• Professional appearance.
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Check.
• Able to participate in patient moving and handling if necessary.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).