Job summary
- Main area
- Primary Care and Community
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AHP082-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dewi Sant Hospital
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
AHP Intermediate Care Service Lead
Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team of over 14,500 people from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. As a family-friendly employer, we’re committed to promoting flexibility and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
Discover more about working with us here:
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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
This is a brand new post within the Health Community Support Team, for the Health Board.
This service will provide intermediate care, support and rapid access to mutli professional intervention in order to support patients from discharge from hospital and avoid unneccessary admissions into hospital.
You will be operationally managing the AHP resource within this service, which will work across the Health Board.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder is identified as a highly skilled, senior practitioner with expert knowledge in Community and Intermediate Care.
- The post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership for AHP’s working within the service.
- The post holder will work with the community, primary care and admission avoidance teams across the health board and local authorities to respond in a timely way to urgent patients.
- The post holder will take a lead on the continuing development of the Intermediate Care Service and its strategic and operational planning.
- The post holder will undertake research and development on an ongoing basis, leading clinical audit and research associated with the Intermediate Care Service.
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 bale to find a full job description and person specification attached with supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy or Physiotherapy
- Post graduate Diploma level in relevant area.
- Professional registration as recognised by HCPC. Evidence of attendance on relevant short courses.
- Knowledge of Health and Social Care legislation. Knowledge of current health and social care policies and application in clinical area.
- Leadership/Management qualification or evidence of management development e.g. leadership/coaching/mentoring.
- Evidence of knowledge/experience or qualification in research and audit. Knowledge of the requirements of clinical governance.
- Knowledge of Health Issues affecting the local population and strategies in place to support improvement in these areas.
- Evidence of professional development. Fieldwork education training qualification.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
Desirable criteria
- Member of professional body. Member of relevant specialist interest group.
- Project/programme development experience.
- Knowledge of current agenda for health and social care provision.
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of health and socio-economic factors on the health of the local population.
- Knowledge of change management principles.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post graduate experience. Extensive experience of operational management and supervision of staff
- Extensive experience of managing a complex caseload. Inter-professional and multiagency team working.
- Experience of working within an intermediate care setting. Direct involvement with carers and families.
- Negotiation of service development. Evidence of supporting service compliance with clinical governance requirements.
- Experience of appropriate delegation and supervision. Evidence of student supervision. Extensive practical experience of human resource management, operational management and clinical/operational supervision.
- Experience of developing service, clinical and professional standards and policies. Experience of planning and delivering formal and informal teaching.
- Evidence of implementing clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experienced of working towards defined/busy deadlines. Experience of participating in national and local professional forums.
Desirable criteria
- Negotiation of multidisciplinary working arrangements.
- Leadership of clinical networks/clinical practice groups.
- Leading service developments and change.
Skills & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Resource management skills. Ability to work under pressure with competing priorities to meet deadlines and address volume of work.
- Ability to motivate and lead. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to use highly specialist clinical reasoning. Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Ability to discuss and challenge clinical reasoning process of others. Ability to manage complex and contentious issues.
- Advanced problem solving and negotiation skills. Organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to concentrate in and cope within challenging environments, including highly emotional or distressing circumstances and distressing clinical situations. An ability to communicate complex information to colleagues and partners in external organisations at a national and international level.
- Ability to focus on service objectives and to deliver on these. Demonstrates critical appraisal skills. Ability to focus on research and project objectives and to deliver on these.
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders. Proven team worker.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, empathy and diplomacy. Ability to work under self-direction. Flexible approach to work, adaptable and creative.
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions on a daily basis. Ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling, equipment and advanced manual treatment techniques.
Other Role Requirements
Essential criteria
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
- Ability to work flexibly
- Able to carry out full range of duties, including travel throughout CTMUHB and community sites in a timely manner.
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
- Julia Wilkinson
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager Primary Care & Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Paula Cornelius
01443 443272
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