Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Physiotherapist

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Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Physiotherapist

Are you an Occupational Therapist or a Physiotherapist looking for a new and exciting opportunity that will positively challenge your clinical skills and creative thinking?

Do you like working in an acute, fast paced environment where you can have an immediate impact on a person's outcome? And are you excited by change and the idea of contributing to the development and direction of an evolving team? If so, this could be the job for you!

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a creative, compassionate and motivated practitioner with a passion for person centred care to join our multi professional Community Admissions Avoidance Therapy Team (CAATT) at the Medical Admissions Unit in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.

The CAATT service is based at the 'front door' of hospitals across ABUHB and provides a rapid response to people (adults) presenting with conditions that have impacted their ability to live in their usual manner with the aim of using a place-based approach to encourage and facilitate care closer to home.

Assessments will be undertaken primarily in the medical admissions unit in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, with the primary aim being to consider and facilitate home in the first instance and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. When admission is necessary, CAATT promotes timely discharges, reduced lengths of stay and reduced readmission rates through early initiation of therapy interventions and guiding the person to the right place to address their ongoing needs.

The CAATT service work in an interdisciplinary / blurred boundary manner with professional competencies covering both Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy to enable holistic and prudent therapy interventions. Because of this, the successful candidate could come from either profession depending on experience.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will be aligned to the CAATT model which provides services to The Grange University Hospital, The Royal Gwent Hospital and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.

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.

We have a full time post available at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr which provides a Monday to Friday service at the Medical Admissions Unit. However depending on CAATT service need, there will be a requirement to work flexibly across the sites to which we provide service to ensure the service remains responsive to demand and 7-day working rotas are supported.

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

Person Specification

  • Qualifications
  • HCPC registration
  • clinical educator course
  • Appropriate clinical experience
  • Membership of appropriate union
  • Knowledge and understanding of role
  • Experience of managing complex clinical situations
  • Experience of working as part of a team
  • Awareness of clinical governance
  • Evidence of supervising others
  • Welsh speaker / willingness to learn
  • Broad range of clinical experience
  • Specific experience in admissions avoidance / front door services
  • Previous experience in NHS as HCPC registrant
  • Previous band 6 experience
  • Experience facilitating undergraduate student placements
  • Ability to adapt to changes in work routine
  • Ability to travel between sites / patients residences in a timely manner

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£39,263 to £47,280 a yearper annum pro rata


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