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Specialist Occupational Therapist Palliative Care
The closing date is 25 August 2025
This is an excellent opportunity for an innovative, self motivated, compassionate Occupational Therapist to join our Specialist Palliative Care Occupational Therapy Service. With the support of the wider Occupational Therapy and Multi disciplinary team, you will develop your knowledge and skills in a highly specialist and rewarding setting.
Situated just outside of Cardiff with excellent road links, you will be based in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions to palliative care patients within the Health Board.
With a wealth of learning and development opportunities such as a Band 6 Development Framework, a training passport tailored to your learning needs and peer support you will be able to consolidate and enhance your specialist Occupational Therapy and leadership and management skills.
As part of a close MDT, you will work together with your patients and their families to identify meaningful goals, provide assessments, identify appropriate interventions and enable them to remain in their home.
The post holder will carry an independent caseload of patients and deliver occupational therapy intervention to a high standard with the ethos of providing evidence based, high quality interventions.
The successful candidate will work closely with the MDT, Principal OT, Discharge Liaison Team and Local Authorities to ensure effective cross boundary and agency working
Main duties of the job
As a versatile, self-motivated Occupational Therapist you will demonstrate an understanding of complex manual handling and issues affecting people in the end stages of life.
You will need the ability and skills to work autonomously and alongside members of the team with excellent interpersonal skills. You will have the organisational ability, flexible approach to the needs of the service and a commitment to work with Senior Occupational Therapists within the team to develop the service through evaluation of the evidence base, audit and quality improvement.
You will provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and interventions to patients in the hospital and in the community to enable the person to remain in their home.
You will provide supervision and support to junior members of the team and student Occupational Therapists and have a passion for delivering evidence based, quality intervention using research, audit and quality improvement projects. The post holder will be flexible to service needs, possess excellent self-management skills and administer their caseload efficiently to ensure effective intervention focused on preventing avoidable admissions, rehabilitation and efficient discharge planning, depending on setting.
We are looking for a candidate that is motivated, enthusiastic with exceptional communication and people skills.
About us
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:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one tea
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job 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.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isnt fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
* Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
* Registered member of HCPC
* Documented evidence of CPD
* Post-graduate training in motivational interviewing, goal planning
* Post graduate training/accreditation in fieldwork education
* Membership of professional body
Experience
* Experience of autonomous caseload management, comprising assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation within relevant clinical areas.
* Understanding the OT process with particular emphasis on physical conditions and palliative care.
* Supervision of staff.
* Understanding the current best practice in OT with designated client group.
* Knowledge of the principle of clinical governance.
* Knowledge of a range of policies/procedures e.g. ( risk management, protection of venerable adults, DOLs)
* Knowledge and understanding of complex manual handling
* Experience of audit.
* Experience of multidisciplinary working.
* Experience of working in the community
* Experience of service delivery in a variety of different clinical physical health settings
* Experience of working with Palliative Care patients.
Aptitude and Abilities
* Ability to work single-handedly with individuals or groups
* Organisational, planning and time management skills.
* Demonstrable clinical reasoning skills, and able to make effective clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases
* Knowledge of broad range of medical, surgical and orthopaedic conditions
* Knowledge and understanding of cognitive, physical, psychological and cultural factors which can influence discharge planning
* Understanding of team dynamics
* Ability to undertake physical activity required for handling of clients.
* Effective written and oral communication skills.
* Computer skills e.g. use of word, excel, PowerPoint and data inputting.
* Ability to travel across sites and to client's homes and community settings.
* Physical and emotional stamina to deal with sensitive and difficult situations.
* Welsh Language Speaking/Listening at Level 3 or above
Values
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
* Ability to handle difficult and unpredictable situations.
* Ability to work flexibly according to the needs of the service and prioritise workload appropriately.
* Ability to travel across sites and to client's homes and community settings.
* Ability to transport and fit equipment in client's homes.
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.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
£39,263 to £47,280 a yearper annum pro rata
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