Job overview

Do you want to work in a kind and compassionate and cohesive service that prioritise person-centred and high quality care? Do you want to work in a team that have an excellent reputation for supporting staff well-being? Then look no further! 

This role provides the opportunity to work in both outpatient and community and virtual settings, providing services to a wide range of adult clients. 

As well as being skilled in dysphagia management and rehabilitation, this post holder will hold a passion communication therapy and support.  

We have excellent resources to support your ongoing professional development.   As well as external opportunities for learning, we also run monthly CPD cafes, staff workshops, in-service training days and a protected hour a month for well being. 

You will also benefit from easy access for our FEES,  VFS clinics as well as our recently developed swallow rehab support groups. 

We place high importance of staff having regular clinical supervision and opportunities to sit and reflect on their clinical and professional learning. 

Our health board is known for its friendly, approachable and supportive staff so you will enjoy working with your wider MDT in CTMUHB.

This particular service was recently shortlisted and highly commended at the National AHA Awards. 

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Main duties of the job

Welsh Skills Desirable: 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. 

You will be a core member of the OPD/community team, providing communication & swallowing assessment & intervention to a patients with a range of diagnosis. These may include but not exclusive too stroke, progressive neurology’s, respiratory patients.

There is the opportunity to be involved in the training of carers and other staff within the UHB.

You will be line managed by one of the band 7 outpatient team.

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.