Recovery Activities WorkersNHS

Job summary

The Forensic Secure Service offers you the exciting opportunity to work within the Secure Inpatient Service.

We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and creative individuals to join our team of Activity Workers to facilitate activity within Roseberry Park Hospital.

The role will involve working with our excellent facilities across the inpatient site and within a ward environment. You will have strong working links with the Recovery Academy as well as a range of Allied Health Professionals.

The Forensic Service will provide you with access to relevant training opportunities in your workplace to support you in developing your knowledge, experience and skills.

You will have the opportunity to make a significant positive impact on the delivery of care and improving patient wellbeing whilst being supported by a dedicated multi-disciplinary team.

You will have the opportunity to provide a range of therapeutic activities to meet the educational, social and recreational needs of service users to enhance recovery.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

Main duties of the job

The successful postholders will develop and deliver a range of activities for all inpatients within the service, supporting with recovery focused rehabilitation. These could include Recovery Colleges, Vocational skills and qualifications and social activities.

In addition to this, the postholders will support and enhance peoples hobbies and skills, such as, supporting or leading in areas of craft, gardening, sports, social activities based with in the hospital and wider community.

Job description

The Secure Inpatient Service provides a specialist service for adults with a mental health disorder, learning disability or autism. The service provides individualised, comprehensive packages of care within Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings.

We continuously strive to make a difference to the lives of our service users and carers. We take pride in ensuring care and security is delivered in a psychologically informed and compassionate way, working collaboratively with our service users and carers to create and sustain a positive and healthy psychosocial environment.

As a service we pride ourselves in supporting and promoting staff health and wellbeing and have developed and published specific guidance for all staff to support this aim as a priority.

We offer an environment where you can develop and enhance your creative skills and hobbies by supporting others within their recovery journey.

We offer a variety of training courses and induction programmes for all staff, and welcome forward thinking initiatives to aid patients recovery.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Additional informal enquiries: Sarah Robinson, Recovery, Education and Activity Manager [email protected] 07920138826 9-5 working hours.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.