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., You will be joining a well-established Network of integrated community and primary care with a dedicated Principal Occupational Therapist for professional support and leadership. The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary teams to meet the needs of people within their communities. The post will offer opportunity to :

• Influence the future design of community services.
• Develop Trusted Assessor and Blurred Boundary competencies
• Develop leadership skills
• Partake in service evaluation
Our aim is to reach individuals at the very earliest point of crisis to keep people in their own homes.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and / or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply., Essential
• Degree / Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• Post graduate training / accreditation in fieldwork education
• Knowledge and application of principles of clinical governance and risk management
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of professional ethics / standards and code of conduct, and their application in practice
• Evidence of critical appraisal / analytical thought.
• Knowledge of graded therapeutic interventions.
• Knowledge and understanding of factors which can influence discharge planning including : cognitive, physical, psychological and cultural
• Knowledge of broad range of medical, surgical and orthopaedic conditions
Desirable
• Knowledge of national drivers for health provision for service user group
• Management qualification
• Post-graduate training in motivational interviewing, goal planning
• Knowledge of standardiseInterest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluationd and non-standardised assessments that can be used with service user group
• Understanding of the theory and practical application goal orientated approach
Experience Essential
• Post graduate clinical experience in area of physical medicine
• Experience of service delivery in a variety of different clinical physical health settings
• Experience of effective one-to-one interactions
• Experience of research and audit
• Experience of applying professional theory to practice
• Experience of delivering training and education
• Experience of supervision
Desirable
• Experience of advising / teaching other professions
• Experience of presenting information to a variety of audiences
• Experience in an acute setting and / or the community
• Experience of cross organisational working
Aptitude, Abilities & Values Essential
• Ability to work well under pressure within a multi / inter disciplinary team
• 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
• Ability to work independently with individuals
• Demonstrable clinical reasoning skills, and able to make effective clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases
• Ability to negotiate with others where opinions differ
• Able to present and interpret data
• Using own initiative and is self-motivated, innovative and creative.
• Work flexibly and respond to unpredictable, challenging work environments
• Approachable and considerate, Reliable, conscientious and hard-working
Desirable
• Evidence of delivering competency based learning
• Evidence of effective teaching skills
• Ability to use reflective practice based on current evidence.
• Awareness of current professional issues
Other Essential
• Ability to travel around geographical area
  
  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.