Specialist Occupational Therapist

+ Carry out specialist occupational therapy assessments, including in home and community settings.
+ Carry out and interpret MOHO standardised assessments.
+ Independently plan, implement, evaluate and review treatment plans on an individual and group basis.
+ Actively engage carers/families in the therapeutic process, motivating and supporting them to take responsibility for decision making and goal setting
+ Work autonomously to manage and prioritise own caseload.
+ Carry out role of supervisor to support staff and educator to practice placement students.
+ Collaborate with others to modify and develop the service in line with changing circumstances and needs.
+ Function in a multi-disciplinary team identifying unique skills of the occupational therapist.
+ Maintain and actively develop close working relationships with colleagues across disciplines and agencies e.g. voluntary, statutory and private.
+ Assess and manage risk. Carry out written risk assessments.
+ Undertake generic duties to enable the service to function effectively such as initial assessments., A wide variety of specialist training opportunities are available in the health board and the occupational therapy service is committed to student education and practice development in order to ensure best practice standards to support our service users.
All occupational therapists have Model of human occupation (MOHO) licences and use of MOHO assessment tools.
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An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated occupational therapist to join Aneurin Bevan Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service North.
Working independently, the post holder will manage a varied and complex caseload identifying, planning and providing highly skilled occupational therapy intervention for adults with needs arising from substance use and addiction. The post holder will be expected to work towards the development of their expertise in this area of clinical practice. The post holder will maintain a clinical caseload drawn from the ABSDAS team. The successful post holder will be expected to contribute to the maintenance and development of the occupational therapy service, ABSDAS and continue with their own professional development.
The post holder will support clients from all three counties: Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Torfaen.
The post holder will be required to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team offering advice and recommendations based on the outcome of assessments and interventions carried out with service users. The post holder will be expected to work within their professional competence, skills and knowledge base., The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

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. 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