Specialist Occupational Therapist

The primary focus will be rapid multi-factorial assessments in individuals homes to identify what matters to them, to co-produce achievable goals and implement fast pace interventions. The post-holder will work collaboratively with our integrated Health and Local Authority community teams delivering on place based care ethos. You will prioritise and screen referrals with the aim to offer a same day response. This will include telephone consultation, home based assessment, with scope to complete an additional 2 sessions to support individuals to return home during their acute need. Your scope of practice will include compensatory and functional rehabilitation methods to prevent admission and support the person to manage their immediate needs. You will form close working relationships with your integrated primary care and rehabilitation colleagues to handover the episode of care to support the individual to work towards achieving longer term goals. You will be part of the service design and will work closely with your Band 7 Clinical Lead, Band 6 OT colleague and Principal Occupational Therapist to implement change at pace.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Our Rapid Assessment and Prevention OT service have an opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the team. RAP works collaboratively with GP and Welsh Ambulance colleagues to intervene at the earliest point of crisis with a joint aim to support individual's to avoid the need for conveyance to Accident & Emergency. RAP also supports community MDT admission avoidance teams and GP Out of Hours to deliver a same day response. We need a dynamic practitioner with a passion for community based working, with a clear focus on admission avoidance and rapid responses to keep individuals in their own homes. If working at pace and transforming services is something you enjoy, this might be the post for you. RAP have been invited to present at November's HEIW AHP Conference - Moving forward together: AHP Innovation to Inspire Future Solutions and will have a poster displayed in the Demonstrating Impact and Value of AHPs category. It is an exciting time to join our service and wewant you to be involved in shaping the future of integrated community services within CTMUHB., 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 tea
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.