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Band 3 Activity Coordinator | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9DJ |
| Company: | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7415821/418-NUR5821-SJ |
Summary
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.
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.
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.
The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities
• To promote person-centred care by ensuring 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 a 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.
• To support ward staff in managing stress related behaviours.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Sep 2025