Job summary
- Main area
- Community Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AHP080-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Resource Team Trem Y Mor
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Occupational Therapist
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Occupational therapist to work as part of the Multidisciplinary/Multiagency Community Resource Team based in the Bridgend area.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated OT to provide Reablement to adults with a variety of medical and surgical conditions.
Working as part of a team the successful candidate will need to work collaboratively, flexibly and pro-actively to deliver effective time limited OT interventions to support people to remain independent in their own homes.
The successful candidate will hold a defined case load providing evidence-based interventions to promote independence and quality of life.
Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential within this post. The successful candidate will need to plan and manage their time effectively, ensuring prioritisation and completion of both clinical and non-clinical tasks to ensure effective workload management and the ability to respond with flexibly and timeliness to the needs of the service.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is committed to providing professional supervision and supporting continuing Professional development.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will hold a defined case load providing evidence-based interventions to promote independence and quality of life.
Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential within this post.
The successful candidate will need to plan and manage their time effectively, ensuring prioritisation and completion of both clinical and non-clinical tasks to ensure effective workload management and the ability to respond with flexibly and timeliness to the needs of the service.
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t 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 isn’t ‘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.
Working for our organisation
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 team
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To manage a defined caseload within specialist area, using evidence based /client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the outcomes of intervention in hospital and in the community maintaining associated records. To organise this efficiently and effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
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.
Person specification
Skills / Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the Occupational Therapy process with particular emphasis on physical conditions.
- Awareness of specific government policy / legislation pertinent to the clinical areas.
- Ability to work single-handedly with individuals
- Organizational, planning and time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Computer skills e.g. use of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and data inputting
- Ability to travel across sites to clients homes and community settings where required in order to carry out clinical tasks
- Ability to work flexibly according to the needs of the service and prioritise workload appropriately
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research and/ or audit and implementing evidence based practice
- Previous experience of supervising staff
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Occupational Therapy (or equivalent OT qualification
- Professional Registration with HPC
Desirable criteria
- Membership of professional body BAOT
- Accredited fieldwork supervisor for the education of OT students
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
- Caroline Roberts
- Job title
- Team Manager Short term assessment & Reabling
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974903720
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