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Job overview
Our Rapid Assessment and Prevention OT service have an opportunity for a static 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.
The operating model has one OT based within the Clinical Navigation Hub at Ty Elai, with two OTs 'roaming' providing patient facing clinical responses. OTs will rotate between being Hub based and roaming, utilising hot desks across the CTMUHB and Local Authority sites to reduce unnecessary travel and network with our in-patient and community colleagues. Primary base for this post will be Clinical Navigation Hub at Ty Elai.
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.
It is an exciting time to join our award winning service and we want you to be involved in shaping the future of integrated community services within CTMUHB.
We would encourage you to make contact with the team so they can share their passion and experiences and offer a visit to the Clinical Navigation Hub to see the service in action.
Join the passion and apply now.
Main duties of the job
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; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
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.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel around geographical area
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
Qualifications
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
- Interest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluation and non-standardised assessments that can be used with service user group
- Understanding of the theory and practical application goal orientated approach
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
- Welsh language skills in Speaking/Listening at Level 3 or above
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This advert is for Occupational Therapist Specialist with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £40,559 - £48,841 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 22 Jul 2026.
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