Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday core hours)
- Job ref
- 110-AHP226-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ty Elai
- Town
- Tonypandy
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Therapy Team Leader Reablement
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
Are you passionate about promoting independence and recovery within the community?
Are you wanting to lead a dynamic team of Local Authority and Health Board Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy support staff?
Would you like the opportunity to be supported in an integrated management structure, with leadership and mentorship from both Local Authority and Health Board managers?
Then this may be the position for you.
Reablement is part of the wider Support @ Home team, offering an opportunity to recover from ill health and to prevent episodes of health deterioration where possible. The service offers a period of rehabilitation to enable service users to maintain, regain or re-learn daily living skills and abilities. Reablement programs are bespoke and tailored to the goals set with service users aiming to achieve their full potential whilst preventing or reducing the need to move on to longer term community services.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the delivery and development of the therapy component of the Intermediate Care and Rehabilitation Services for individuals referred to the reablement team which is based in the local authority covering the localities of Rhondda Cynon Taff.
- Be responsible for the effective treatment and management of Service users requiring rehabilitation in the community in order to maximise their independence and functional ability within the home and local environment, to prevent inappropriate admissions to and enable timely discharge from hospital.
- Provide clinical leadership and advice to team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Therapy Technicians and support local authority support services staff to enhance service provision and clinical interventions for community patients within the locality.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English 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
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
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy.
- Evidence of ability to work at Master’s Level.
- Specialist knowledge of professional assessments and interventions relevant to the rehabilitation in the community.
- Knowledge and understanding of current agenda and drivers for health and social care policy including legislation.
- Detailed knowledge and application of principles of clinical governance and risk management.
- Detailed understanding of the principles of partnership working.
- Evidence of critical appraisal/analytical thought.
- Specialist rehabilitation approaches.
- Evidence of commitment to CPD.
Desirable criteria
- Management qualifications e.g. ILM or clinical leadership.
- Knowledge of standardised and non-standardised assessments that can be used with client group.
- Interest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluation.
- Postgraduate training in Rehabilitation.
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of professional ethics/standards and code of conduct, and their application in practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in specialist area related to post.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working.
- Significant experience of clinical/team leadership.
- Extensive clinical experience.
- Experience of supervision of junior/support staff/students.
- Experience of research and audit.
- Management experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience at professional band equivalent.
- Awareness of current professional issues.
- Experience of advising/teaching.
- Experience of supervisory skills including appraisal.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a team
- Professional confidence to represent service on relevant issues.
- Ability to reflect and objectively appraise own and others performance.
- Demonstrable interpersonal and communication skills.
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate to overcome barriers.
- Autonomous practitioner with excellent personal organisational skills for caseload management, and case management including time management and prioritisation skills.
- Ability to work independently with individuals and groups.
- Demonstrable clinical reasoning skills, and able to make effective clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases.
- Able to engage and lead a multi professional team
- Ability to negotiate with others where opinions differ.
- Adaptive skills that embrace change and new developments.
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to unpredictable demands.
- Ability to cope with highly emotional or distressing circumstances safely.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel within geographical area in a timely manner.
- Able to work hours flexibly.
Values
Essential criteria
- Promote and uphold the values and behaviours of CTMUHB.
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
- Jane Paxon
- Job title
- Principal Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 715281
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