Overview
The post holder will provide an Occupational Therapy (OT) service to @Home service based in Dewi Sant Hospital. Occupational Therapists will be required to provide assessment and rehabilitation services to service users referred. The post holder will be expected to achieve competencies to facilitate role blurring across traditional occupational therapy (OT) boundaries, including work with integrated Health & Social Care teams. The post holder will be required to work in both hospital and service users' homes in the community but will also have access to CTMUHB's therapy departments and Local Authority premises if required.
Responsibilities
* Deliver assessment and rehabilitation services to service users referred to the OT service.
* Work to achieve competencies that facilitate role blurring across OT boundaries, including collaboration with integrated Health & Social Care teams.
* Work in hospital and service users\' homes in the community; utilise CTMUHB therapy departments and Local Authority premises as required.
* Deliver on a range of performance indicators including:
o Reduction in length of stay
o Improving independence
o Delivering and monitoring accredited competency based training (e.g., Calderdale)
o Supporting the achievement of competencies by Health and Social Care Support Workers
* Assess the ability of service users to remain safely at home and, where necessary, undertake an OT rehabilitation programme with support workers.
* Liaise with families, carers and advocates, as well as the Multi-Disciplinary Team (e.g., Primary Care, Local Authority and third sector organisations).
* Use the OT process autonomously in various settings, including lone working in the community and in service users\' homes.
* Manage a defined caseload providing specialist assessment, rehabilitation and intermediate care services to referred people.
* Use evidence-based practice and service-user centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in hospital and community settings.
* Maintain clinical records according to local and professional guidelines.
* Develop expert skills and knowledge through an agreed personal development plan.
* Provide leadership for new and support staff through supervision and allocation of work.
* Supervise students as an accredited practice educator who adheres to the requirements of defined standards of practice and supervision.
* Provide evidence-based training and delivery of competency-based practice to the support staff.
* Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team involved with the provision of health and social care services to service users. This includes hospital staff, intermediate care managers, care managers, third sector organisations and primary care.
About CTMUHB and values
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:
o We listen, learn and improve
o We treat everyone with respect
o We all work together as one team
* We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but also of the diverse communities that we serve.
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