About this role
Job summary Patient Facilitator Role - Andrew Ward
The Patient Facilitator role on Andrew Ward is an exciting and meaningful opportunity within the healthcare sector. This position plays a key part in enhancing the experience of patients receiving hospital care, with a focus on providing therapeutic engagement, emotional support, and social interaction.
Closing Date: 3rd September 2026
Interview Date: 18th September 2026
Main duties of the job Main Duties of the Patient Facilitator - Andrew Ward ? Core Purpose
The Patient Facilitator supports the wellbeing, comfort, and experience of patients on Andrew Ward through meaningful interaction, therapeutic engagement, and compassionate communication.
Key Responsibilities Distraction Interaction -- Provide patients with engaging activities such as conversation, art, games, sensory stimulation, and time in communal spaces to reduce boredom, anxiety, and isolation.
Mealtime Support -- Assist patients during meal times by offering encouragement, ensuring they have appropriate support, and helping them access drinks throughout the day to maintain hydration and comfort.
Patient Voice & Advocacy -- Ensure patients feel heard and valued during their hospital stay by listening to their concerns, preferences, and wishes, and communicating these to the wider multidisciplinary team.
'This Is Me' Documentation -- Support patients in completing their personal "This Is Me" documentation to help staff understand their background, preferences, routines, and individual needs.
Family Liaison -- Communicate with families to understand and uphold patient wishes, ensuring relatives feel informed, involved, and reassured.
Activity Planning -- Create and deliver activity days that bring variety, stimulation, and enjoyment to patients, helping break up long periods spent within the bay area
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond. Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes Key Facts:
We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day. We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week. An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country. Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily. Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres. We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres. We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day. UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Job description Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Experience & Knowledge Essential
Demonstrable experience of working with patients with dementia in the care setting Demonstrable knowledge with regards cognitive and social stimulation Demonstrable experience with working with members of the multi-disciplinary team To be able to demonstrate awareness of Trust Dementia Strategy
Desirable
To have worked within a large team supporting patients and colleagues
Education, Training and Qualifications CPD Requirements Essential
Good level of secondary education To be able to demonstrate received training to an intermediate level of dementia awareness To be able to demonstrate an understanding with regards Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults; Mental Capacity and Deprivations of Liberty
Desirable
NVQ Level II in Direct Care or Health, or ability to demonstrate an equivalent level of development
Skills and Ability Essential
To be able to demonstrate the ability to liaise with all members of the multi-disciplinary team To be able to demonstrate the ability to liaise with carers/relatives and patients and support and signpost as appropriate To be able to demonstrate the ability to provide clear and concise documentation in line with Trust Policy IT Literate
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Address Sir Robert Peel Hospital
Mile Oak Plantation Lane
Tamworth
B78 3NG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)