Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our community and outpatient service team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg. Our rapid access service was recently shortlisted for an AHA award.

We are a thriving department that has received local and national recognition for Quality Improvement initiatives, and consistently outperforms the NHS Wales average on the NHS Wales Staff Survey.

You will work flexibly across our outpatient and community services

You will have the clinical and professional support of the wider SLT team and your base is negotiable at interview. 

You will have specialist skills in dysphagia assessment and management, communication assessment and support, advanced care planning, capacity assessment and facilitation of discharge. 

You will be an innovative thinker, able to lead on a new project, work autonomously and as part of a team and a skill for collecting and analysing data.  

Applications from therapists who do not meet the full criteria of the Band 6 JD/PS, but are looking for a development post are welcomed and encouraged, and will be remunerated under Annex 21 of the A4C T&Cs.

Main duties of the job

Applications from therapists who do not meet the full criteria of the Band 6 JD/PS, but are looking for a development post are welcomed and encouraged, and will be remunerated under Annex 21 of the A4C T&Cs.

This role offers the opportunity to work across the following areas:

• Collaborate with general medical services, COTE, respiratory/digestive etc
• Work closely with care agencies/community teams/care home staff and carers
• Support the process of training  home staff 
• Capacity assessments/advanced care planning

You will be supported by robust line management, clinical supervision and adult team meetings. There are good resources available for CPD and staff wellbeing. We are a compassionate and dynamic team who would welcome you to the team with open arms.

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 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.