Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 110-AHP043-0425
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Carnegie Clinic Children Centre
- Town
- Tonypandy
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 6
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 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Are you passionate about Children's occupational therapy? Then look no further than our Band 6 Paediatric post!!!!
The post will offer you the opportunity to continue to develop your skills in a range of assessment and intervention with children and young people within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg population.
The post holder will be based at the Children Centre, Carnegie Clinic , however will have opportunity to work across our other site's delivering robust intervention to a complex and varied caseload.
Although post holder will be based at Carnegie clinic you will have the opportunity to develop skills by working across other health authority sites, and will be required to work in a variety of community settings: clinic, schools, nurseries, client’s homes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage a complex and varied caseload, assessing, identifying, planning and providing highly specialist occupational therapy (OT) interventions for children with disabilities/developmental problems. The post holder will implement the treatment plan with autonomy; taking sole responsibility for the patient’s safety when undertaking home visits/school and community work, and maintain clinical records in accordance with legal requirements and professional standards.
The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, support staff and contribute to their development, as a delegated supervisor and regularly supervise OT students on practice placement.
They will work in partnership across the primary/secondary care interface with voluntary organisations, local authority and other appropriate health and social care sectors.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; 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. Post graduate training/ accreditation in fieldwork education. Registered member of the HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate training in the area related to Paediatric OT. Management qualifications e.g. ILM
Experience
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate clinical experience, with post graduate clinical experience in Paediatric OT. Extensive clinical experience including group and individual Paediatric intervention. Experience of research and audit. Experience of applying professional theory to practice. Experience of delivering training and education to support staff. Experience of supervision. Experience in a range of Paediatric settings e.g. home, schools, community.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of current professional issues. Ability to use reflective practice based on current evidence. Experience of advising/teaching other professions. Experience of presenting information to a variety of audiences. Experience of cross organisational working.
Aptitude and Abilities Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work well under pressure within a multi/inter disciplinary team. Ability to work within a team and develop team working. Presentation skills. Able to present and interpret data. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance. Well-developed written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate in a way which will neither offend nor antagonise. Autonomous practitioner with excellent personal organisational skills for caseload management, including time management and prioritisation skills.
Desirable criteria
- The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level.
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
- Bethan Murphy
- Job title
- Band 7 Occupational Therapist Locality Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443073
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