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.

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.

Job responsibilities
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 sarah.robinson21@nhs.net 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.

Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant NVQ Level 3 in Care
• OR Appropriate AVCE in Health & Social Care
• OR Willingness to undertake within agreed timescale
• Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Qualification in education or lifelong learning
• OR Qualification in LLDD (Learner with Learning Difficulties/Disabilities)

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in Experience or paid or voluntary work with adults with learning disability and /or Autism spectrum conditions and/or mental health conditions clinical setting
• Experience of organising and running activities of a therapeutic nature

Desirable

• Experience of working in secure setting
• Experience of Recovery College courses and recovery focused events

Knowledge
Essential

• Awareness of the needs and difficulties of service users with mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities.
• Awareness of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• Understanding of Recovery and the CHIME principles
• Understanding of education terminology (within agreed timescale)
• Awareness of health & safety issues (within agreed timescale)

Skills
Essential

• Ability to communicate information (verbal and written) effectively in a manner appropriate to the individual and situation
• Time management and ability to prioritise effectively

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.

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).