Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 24 hours per week (Part time - 24 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 040-AHP299-1224
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chepstow Community Hospital
- Town
- Chepstow
- Salary
- 拢37,898 - 拢45,637 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist Severn View
Band 6
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, experienced and innovative occupational therapist to join the South Monmouthshire integrated service with the focus on providing rehabilitation in our purpose built step up/down unit based within the brand new purpose built Severn View care home. The step up/down service provides a residential setting for those people in need of continued rehabilitation to facilitate discharge from hospital but are not yet ready to return home or those who cannot manage at home due to a fall, illness, or crisis where hospital admission is not required. Working within a multi-professional team, the post holder will be expected to support the development and implementation of rehabilitation programmes tailored to the persons occupational performance needs to support the individual to return home.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work alongside a band 4 OT technician, Severn View Park staff, reablement and the wider MDT in Severn View Park residential home to deliver rehabilitation to people to enable them to live as independently as possible and to return to their own homes.
The postholder will develop individual rehabilitation programmes to support the person to maximise their independence and occupational performance.
The postholder will support the delivery of reablement training to staff to ensure a rehabilitative approach during the persons stay to maximise independence
This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop caseload management skills. The successful candidate will need to be flexible, highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic with the ability to deliver a high-quality individualised service with in-reach into other aspects of the pathway as required.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Planning and co-ordination of specialist treatment packages
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- HCPC Registration Up to date professional port folio
- Some specific training related to clinical area e.g. manual handling, seating and positioning, advanced communication skills, cognitive assessment, motivational interviewing.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate experience of working with people with a range of conditions
- Supervision experience of junior staff and/or students
- Experience of working autonomously and setting own priorities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Pendry
- Job title
- Team Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07854 675191
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