We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply, so please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top-up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top-up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top-up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job Overview
The key duties of the role will be to develop therapeutic activities for the patients by setting up Individual/Group activities and discussions on the ward to provide patients with physical and mental stimulation.
Under the supervision of the ward manager, the post holder will be expected to:
* Use specialised creative skills to plan and provide a flexible, patient-centred programme of therapeutic activities for individual/groups of patients.
* Coordinate a designated programme of therapeutic activities provided within the team.
To undertake any other duties consistent with the overall role of the post.
Main Duties of the Job
* To assist the development and implementation of therapeutic care packages and activities to meet the service user’s individual needs, interests, and level of skill.
* To support opportunities for service users to create & develop friendships with other service users during their time on the unit.
* To develop positive relationships with service users and the team.
* To contribute to the assessment of risk and need, liaising and sharing information, which may be complex and sensitive, with the more senior staff members involved in the service user’s care.
* Assessing individual patients’ ability to undertake activity programme.
* To assist in identifying early signs of relapse in the service user’s health by supporting the monitoring of the service user's progress, level of functioning, mental state and alerting the appropriate staff involved in the service user’s care.
* To develop a general understanding of Clinical Governance, always participate in clinical governance supervision and act within the health board’s Clinical Governance framework.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for Our Organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career.
The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Essential Criteria
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
Desirable Criteria
* Meets all the desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification.
Essential Qualifications
* NVQ/QCF LEVEL 2 Health and Social Care
* Experience providing group/individual based activities within a care setting
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