Job overview

This is a great opportunity to join the Activity Coordinator team on Shand Ward. You’ll lead group sessions and one-to-one activities for patients recovering from stroke or experiencing cognitive impairments, helping to improve their wellbeing and functionality.

Working closely with our multi-disciplinary team—including nurses, care support workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and doctors—you’ll help deliver a varied programme of activities tailored to individual needs. From sensory sessions to cognitive tasks and gentle movement groups, your creativity and empathy will help enrich the patient experience.

This full-time role (37.5 hours per week) is spread across five days, with occasional evening or weekend shifts to support patient needs.

You’ll be working with patients identified by the ward and therapy teams as needing extra engagement or supervision, helping to create a more stimulating and supportive environment for their recovery.

Main duties of the job

Although we provide in house training for this role, we need each candidate to have acquired some skills and experience working with people with cognitive impairment. These essential skills can be found in the Personal Specification and Job Description attachment on NHS Jobs. However we have highlighted three of them below.

• Experience in health care as a Clinical Support Worker or Rehab Assistant, particularly with patients with stroke and cognition issues.
• Ability to manage challenging situations in a calm and professional manner.
• Compassionate – exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with staff, patients, carers and relatives.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.