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Rotational Occupational Therapist

Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Location
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Wide
Salary
£35,922 to £43,257 per annum
Closing date
28 Sep 2023
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Profession
Mental health
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Are you looking for a full-time, rotational Band 6 post to continue to develop your clinical and leadership skills? Then come and join our excellent and expanding Band 6 rotation!!

The rotational posts offer you the opportunity to continue to develop your skills in a range of in-patient, community settings and integrated teams whilst also developing your leadership and management skills.

Clinically the rotation spans across the Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB and offers experience throughout the whole patient pathway including:
  • A& E and AMU
  • Paediatrics
  • acute medicine
  • rehabilitation
  • Acute Stroke
  • Stroke Rehabilitation
  • Stroke Early Supported Discharge
  • Memory Reablement
  • Mental Health Liaison
  • Reablement
  • @Home Services
  • Frailty Service
  • The successful candidate will work closely with the MDT, Principal OT, Discharge Liaison Team and Local Authorities to ensure effective cross boundary and agency working.


Main duties of the job

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation to patients to ensure improved functional recovery, prompt discharge and to enable the person to remain in their home.

You will provide supervision and support to junior members of the team and student Occupational Therapists and have a passion for delivering evidence based, quality intervention using research, audit and quality improvement projects. The post holder will be flexible to service needs, possess excellent self management skills and administer their caseload efficiently to ensure effective intervention focused on preventing avoidable admissions, rehabilitation and efficient discharge planning, depending on setting.

We are looking for a candidate that is motivated, enthusiastic with exceptional communication and people skills.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:
  • We listen, learn and improve
  • We treat everyone with respect
  • We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Degree / diploma in Occupational Therapy
  • Registered member of HCPC


Desirable

  • Post graduate training in relevent area


Experience

Essential

  • Postgraduate clinical experience in area of physical medicine
  • Experience of service delivery in a variety of clinical physical health settings
  • Experience of research and audit
  • Experience of Supervision


Desirable

  • Awareness of current professional issues
  • Ability to use reflective practice


Skills

Essential

  • Ability to work well under pressure within wider Multi / interdisciplinary team
  • Presentation skills
  • Autonomous practitioner with excellent personal organisational skills
  • Clinical reasoning skills


Desirable

  • Evidence of delivering competency based learning


Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of broad range of medical surgical orthopaedic conditions2
  • Knowledge of factors that can influence discharge
  • Detailed knowledge of professional ethics / standards
  • Knowledge of graded therapeutic interventions


Desirable

  • Knowledge of standardised / non standardised assessments
  • Knowledge of national drivers for health provision


Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Wide

Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Wide

CF47 9DT

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

110-AHP144-0923

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