Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AHP237-0924
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Continuing Health Care Occupational Therapist
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
The post holder will act as an expert practitioner in occupational therapy practice and provide clinical expertise and professional support from within the Continuing Healthcare (CHC) service, to occupational therapy and other staff working with adults, children and young people with complex needs who require assessment and provision within the NHS Continuing Healthcare criteria.
They will provide specialist advice, undertake joint assessments with clinical staff in the field and will lead in the development of occupational therapy practice within this specialist area of community service provision.
Assessments will be undertaken for those with an identified Occupational Therapy need including adults, children and young people who live in residential nursing homes, private nursing homes, specialist out of county placements, own homes, supported living accommodation and also for adults with complex continuing care needs being discharged from hospital to their own or other accommodation.
Main duties of the job
- To guide and direct the input of practitioners working with adults with Continuing Healthcare (CHC) needs in hospital and community.
- To have responsibility for improving the quality of OT practice in the area of CHC.
- To undertake ‘one-off’ assessments and interventions with less experienced therapists and other agency staff working in the hospitals and community in respect of adults, children and young people who are being assessed for eligibility for Continuing Healthcare.
- To demonstrate advanced knowledge relevant to the application of occupational therapy practice in the area of CHC.
- To be able to move and handle adults, children and young people with complex physical problems and disabilities, assess, prescribe and adjust specialist equipment.
- To assess and provide occupational therapy intervention in cases presenting a high degree of complexity.
- To independently plan, organise, lead and evaluate the occupational therapy service within CHC.
- To provide evidence based assessments and interventions and demonstrate high level clinical reasoning skills in implementing best practice; to explore innovations in practice and implement accordingly.
- To demonstrate an understanding and working knowledge of relevant legislation and local policies.
- To demonstrate an understanding and working knowledge of risk assessment and management
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job description for full details of main responsibilities of the role of the Continuing Health Care Occupational Therapist role.
Person specification
Qualifications and / or knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered member of HCPC
- Postgraduate training in Fieldwork Education
Desirable criteria
- MSc or post-graduate diploma in relevant area.
- Member of Professional Body
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience including manual handling, complex case management
- Experience of MDT/ multi agency working
- Experience of Research and Audit
- Proven leadership/ management experience
Desirable criteria
- • Awareness of current professional issues.
- • Experience of supervisory skills including appraisal.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Professional confidence to represent CHC Service
- Ability to reflect and appraise own performance
- Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly effective written and verbal communication
- • Autonomous practitioner with excellent personal organisational skills for caseload management, including time management and prioritisation skills.
- • Demonstrable clinical reasoning skills, and able to make effective clinical decisions following assessment of highly complex cases.
- Computer literate
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Specialist knowledge of legislation, professional assessments and interventions relevant to OT and CHC.
- • Knowledge and understanding of current agenda for health and social care policy.
- • Detailed knowledge and application of principles of clinical governance and risk management
- • Detailed understanding of the principles of partnership working.
- • Detailed knowledge of critical appraisal and analytical thought
- • Detailed knowledge of specialist equipment.
- • Interest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluation.
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of national and professional drivers for service provision for client group e.g. NICE Guidelines.
- • Knowledge of standardised and non-standardised assessments that can be used with client group.
Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out full range of duties (including travel between the various hospital and community sites) in a timely manner. Ability to work flexibly.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachael Gdesis-Evans
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Occupational Therapy Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752161
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