Band 3 Activity Coordinator

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 Responsibilities

• To promote person-centred care by ensuring the safety of the patients.
• To provide cognitive stimulation through activities, social interaction, and engagement to improve health and wellbeing.
• To provide instruction (verbal and non-verbal) to patients on a range of activities as part of the activities programme.
• To develop rapport with patients to encourage and motivate them to participate in activities (either within a group or individually).
• To contribute to the development and implementation of a creative and innovative activities programme responsive to the varying needs of the patient group.
• To maintain and update an activity plan on the ward.
• To observe general behaviour, abilities, and responses of patients and report them verbally to the multi-disciplinary team and record within the patient record.
• To provide support at mealtimes, encouraging oral intake and nutrition.
• To continue therapy goals set by therapists with the aim of improving functional outcomes.

Although we provide in-house training for this role, we require candidates to have some skills and experience working with people with cognitive impairment. Essential skills include:

• 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 with exceptional interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with staff, patients, carers, and relatives.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas, with key services such as A&E, maternity, and paediatrics. We are committed to high-quality staff training and development, promoting equality and diversity, and delivering excellent patient care using the latest clinical knowledge and technology.

We value individuals who demonstrate our core behaviors through our values-based recruitment approach. Please note that vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received. All new staff will undergo a 6-month probationary period. Travel between hospital sites may be required.

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