Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 110-AHP079-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrissant
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Team Lead Occupational Therapist- Stay Well @ Home Team
Band 7
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
It is an exciting time for therapies within Cwm Taf Morgannwg. We are seeking a dynamic, motivated and innovative Team Lead Occupational Therapist to join our integrated multi-professional, national award winning service.
The Occupational Therapist within the Stay Well At Home Team works closely with the Physiotherapist, Social Workers and Support Workers to provide a rapid response service to people attending the Emergency Care Department and Acute Medical Unit.
The overall aim of the service is to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting timely discharges using a discharge to assess model.
The Stay Well @ Home Service is a 7 day service which allows this post holder to work flexibly across the service Monday- Friday, extended hours. These hours will be agreed upon a success recruitment.
Main duties of the job
It is an exciting time for therapies within Cwm Taf Morgannwg. We are seeking a dynamic, motivated and innovative Team Lead Occupational Therapist to join our integrated multi-professional, national award winning service.
The Team Lead Occupational Therapist within the Stay Well At Home Team works closely with the Physiotherapist, Social Workers and Support Workers to provide a rapid response service to people attending the Emergency Care Department, Clinical Decisions Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Wards. They will also be responsible for providing leadership across the Occupational Therapy division of the service. This will include routine management of operational issues, maintaining high levels of quality and supporting the line manager and Principal OT in identifying and implementing service improvement at times working across traditional Health and Social Care boundaries
The overall aim of the service is to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting timely discharges using a discharge to assess model.
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 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. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet.
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
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
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy.
- Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Post graduate training in clinical education.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant area
- Interest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluation.
- Detailed understanding of the principles of partnership working.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in specialist area related to post.
- Significant experience of clinical/team leadership.
- Extensive clinical experience.
- Experience of supervision of new/less experienced/support staff/students
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of current professional issues
- Experience of advising/teaching
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a team.
- Ability to reflect and objectively appraise own and others performance.
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate to overcome barriers
- Autonomous practitioner with excellent personal organisational skills for caseload management, and case management including time management and prioritisation skills.
- Demonstrable clinical reasoning skills, and able to make effective clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases.
- Able to engage and lead a professional team.
- Ability to cope with exposure to challenging work environments.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
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 desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma Pearson
- Job title
- Integrated Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443443
- Additional information
01443 443443 x 74895
Please contact via email or telephone number to arrange visits to the service
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