Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Physiotherapist

Calling Physiotherapists and Occupational therapists interested in working in the urgent care arena. A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our multiprofessional Community Admissions Avoidance Therapies Team (CAATT) in ABUHB.
Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity that will positively challenge your clinical skills and creative thinking? Do you like working in an acute, fast paced environment where you can have an immediate impact on a person's outcome? And are you excited by change and the idea of contributing to the development and direction of an evolving team? If so, this could be the job for you!

Main duties of the job
We are looking for creative, compassionate, and motivated practitioners with a passion for person centred care to join our multidisciplinary Community Admissions Avoidance Therapy Team (CAATT).
This service is based at the 'front door' of hospitals across ABUHB and provides a rapid response to people (adults) presenting with conditions that have impacted their ability to live in their usual manner with the aim of using a place-based approach to encourage and facilitate care closer to home.
Assessments will be undertaken in the hospital medical admissions units with the primary aim being to consider and facilitate home in the first instance and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. To support this assessments in patients homes may also be required.
When admission is necessary CAATT promotes timely discharges, reduced lengths of stay and reduced readmission rates through early initiation of therapy interventions and guiding the person to the right place to address their ongoing needs.
Post holders will be a combination of qualified Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to allow professional support, development and the provision of specialist services. However, to provide the highest quality, most efficient service post holders will work in an interdisciplinary / blurred boundary manner with competencies covering the professions of Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy., Full and part time posts are currently available in the Royal Gwent Hospital and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr to provide a Monday to Friday service. However, successful candidates will be will be required / have the opportunity to work on other sites to ensure that the service remains responsive to demands and that 7-day working rotas are supported.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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