Specialist Occupational Therapist

at  Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Our Rapid Assessment and Prevention OT service have an opportunity for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join the team.
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.
We want you to be involved in shaping the future of integrated community services within CTMUHB. The focus is prevention, admission avoidance and falls management.
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 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.
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.

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.
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

Please refer the Job description for details