Job overview

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

This role will entail working with service users with serious and enduring mental illness in order to carry out assessments of the interests and activities of each of our service users within Secure Services. This will include exploring and introducing a broad range of activities i.e. social, recreational, vocational and physical activities.

This role can be challenging. Our service user group are not always easy to engage due to the nature of their mental illness. You will be provided with regular support and supervision from both the ward team and other disciplines such as occupational therapists.

Main duties of the job

This will include exploring and introducing a broad range of social, recreational, vocational and physical activities outside of the mental health service, to promote social inclusion and to negotiate activities with individuals and groups. 

You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team and provide feedback both on our electronic systems and verbally in handovers and patient care reviews.

You will need to be forward thinking and flexible to meet the needs of the service.

You will need to develop both new and existing activities to provide a safe, valued and sustainable service.

You will be expected to work a range of shifts from early, mids and late shifts.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) 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 (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

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.