Job Description

Introduction

Join the team at Ann House in Kendal as an Occupation and Wellbeing Associate and establish, deliver and coordinate programmes and activities focused on self-care, leisure and day-to-day life skills to support service users build a brighter future.

You will be working 40 hours a week at Ann House, which provides a specialist provision with enhanced levels of support that allows people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs to be cared for in the least restrictive setting possible, but within a service that is robust and structured enough to meet their ongoing needs and risks.

Supporting the Occupational Therapy team, you will assist in developing links with the local community to support service users engage in community-based activities, which will develop skills and routines that promote positive physical and mental wellbeing.

You will create individual rapports with service users within a 1-to-1 and group setting as you use your technical and creative skills to assist in providing a person-centred programme through therapeutic interventions. You will prepare, risk assess and implement a range of activities as well as contribute to gathering assessment information.

At Ann House, a range of CPD and training opportunities are available that can see your career grow and you achieve your aspirations.

Other responsibilities:

• Develop and demonstrate understanding of activity analysis and graded interventions, with support from the Occupational Therapist
• Coordinate a timetable of meaningful activities for the residents
• Work with residents/support staff/ family members to obtain information relating to social and recreational interests
• Ensure that the appropriate environment and equipment is available to carry out identified activities
• Complete Interest, Community Skills, Road Safety Skills, cooking checklists & feedback to Occupational Therapist

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Care certificate or the willingness to undertake a similar qualification
• Ability to motivate and engage service users
• Ability to build and maintain therapeutic relationships
• Delivering groups and 1-1 enrichment activities
• Full UK driving licence is desirable

What you will get:

• Annual salary of \xc2\xa322,984 + Benefits
• The equivalent of 25 days annual leave - plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Well being support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person\'s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Elysium Healthcare