Overview

Secure Services has an opportunity for an Engagement, Activity, and Physical Health Practitioner (EAPH) to join our team within a medium secure setting.Responsibilities

Work with service users with serious and enduring mental illness to carry out assessments of the interests and activities of each service user within Secure Services.Explore and introduce a broad range of activities, including social, recreational, vocational and physical activities.Collaborate with the ward team and other disciplines such as occupational therapists to provide regular support and supervision.Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and provide feedback on electronic systems and verbally in handovers and patient care reviews.Be forward thinking and flexible to meet the needs of the service.Develop both new and existing activities to provide a safe, valued and sustainable service.Be expected to work a range of shifts from early, mid and late shifts.About AWP

We are Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (BandNES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.Diversity and Inclusion

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care. 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.

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