Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist for Front of House

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our front of house, Transfer of Care and Liaison Service (TOCALS) team. We are an innovative, and proactive team of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists who work closely with medics, nursing, discharge liaison nurses, social workers, brokers, intermediate care and the wider community and third sector teams striving to deliver the right support, at the right time in the right place as close to home as possible. The ethos of this team is home first, they have a successful rate of turning patients around at front door and preventing admissions to hospital where it is not needed. Where identified they will also outreach and follow up a person home to prevent a further admission to hospital. We are looking for someone who supports the key values of health board

• Putting people at the heart of everything we do
• Striving to develop and deliver excellent services
• Working together to be the best we can be
  
  As a versatile postgraduate, you will need to have a strong clinical grounding in older people rehabilitation, complex manual handling, and a good understanding of current issues affecting hospitals, intermediate care and community services.
You will need the ability and skills to work autonomously and alongside members of the team in a managerial and clinical role. The successful applicant will provide clinical leadership, specialist expertise and supervision to Occupational Therapy staff, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, Rehabilitation Assistants/Frailty Support Workers, and students. We are looking for an individual with great interpersonal skills to network with acute and community colleagues to co-ordinate a responsive, seamless service across pathways and sectors. You will have organisational ability and a commitment to service development by developing the evidence base for evaluation through audit, clinical effectiveness and research activity.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through: Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest; Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire; 48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres