Secure Services has an opportunity for an Engagement, Activity, and Physical Health Practitioner (EAPH) to join our team within a medium secure setting.
This role will entail working with service users with serious and enduring mental illness in order to carry out assessments of the interests and activities of each of our service users within Secure Services. This will include exploring and introducing a broad range of activities i.e. social, recreational, vocational and physical activities.
This role can be challenging. Our service user group are not always easy to engage due to the nature of their mental illness. You will be provided with regular support and supervision from both the ward team and other disciplines such as occupational therapists.
This will include exploring and introducing a broad range of social, recreational, vocational and physical activities outside of the mental health service, to promote social inclusion and to negotiate activities with individuals and groups.
You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and provide feedback both on our electronic systems and verbally in handovers and patient care reviews.
You will need to be forward thinking and flexible to meet the needs of the service.
You will need to develop both new and existing activities to provide a safe, valued and sustainable service.
You will be expected to work a range of shifts from early, mids and late shifts.
For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
To make evidence based assessment of the interest and activities of each service user within Secure Services and to work with the named nurse to plan and implement these activities, which promote recovery.
To develop therapeutic relationships with individuals ensuring service users choice, development and independence.
To explore and introduce a broad range of activities i.e. social, recreational, vocational and physical activities outside of the mental health service to promote social inclusion and to negotiate activities with individuals and groups.
To liaise with other wards and departments to facilitate transfer back to the locality ward.
To create and maintain partnerships with leisure and recreational providers within the local and wider community.
Secure Services provide both low and medium secure services. Our medium secure unit is made up of 6 wards for men of working age and 1 ward for females of working age. Our low secure service consists of 3 wards for men of working age.
Secure Services is based in Fishponds. Just 3 miles from the busy city centre of Bristol, with all the culture and diversity that Bristol has to offer.
For a full list of duties and responsibilities please see attached job description.
