Job summary
- Main area
- Primary and Community Care Group
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08:00- 16:00)
- Job ref
- 110-AHP081-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dewi Saint Health Park
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Specialist Occupational Therapist @Home Service
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
The post holder will provide an Occupational Therapy (OT) service to @Home service based in Dewi Sant Hospital.
Occupational Therapists will be required to provide assessment and rehabilitation services to service users referred.
The post holder will be expected to achieve competencies to facilitate role blurring across traditional occupational therapy (OT) boundaries, including work with integrated Health & Social Care teams.
The post holder will be required to work in both hospital and service users’ homes in the community but will also have access to Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s (CTMUHB) therapy departments and Local Authority premises if required.
The post holder will be required to deliver on a range of performance indicators including:
- Reduction in length of stay.
- Improving independence.
- Delivering and monitoring accredited competency based training e.g. Calderdale.
- Supporting the achievement of competencies by Health and Social Care Support Workers.
The post-holder will assess the ability of service user to ensure safely remaining at home and where necessary to undertake an Occupational Therapy rehabilitation programme with support workers.
The post holder will liaise with families, carers and advocates as well as the Multi-Disciplinary Team e.g. Primary Care, Local Authority and third sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
- Use the Occupational Therapy process autonomously in various settings, including lone working in the community in service users’ homes.
- Manage a defined caseload in providing specialist assessment, rehabilitation and intermediate care service to people referred to the team.
- Use evidence based practice/service user centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in hospital and community settings.
- Maintain clinical records according to local and professional guidelines.
- Develop expert skills and knowledge through an agreed personal development plan.
- Provide leadership for new and support staff through supervision and allocation of work.
- Supervise students as an accredited practice educator who adheres to the requirements of the defined standards of practice and supervision.
- Provide evidence based training and delivery of competency based practice to the support staff.
- Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team involved with the provision of health and social care services to service users. This will include hospital staff, intermediate Care Managers, care managers, 3rd sector organisations and primary care.
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
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.
- Use a range of verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to communicate effectively with individuals and/or their family or carers in order to elicit co-operation and establish an appropriate intervention plan. This may include potentially difficult or stressful situations or where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. cognitive problems, hearing, visual, or speech impairment, confusion, anxiety, cultural, or language barriers.
- Create an environment that promotes effective communication with individuals and their family/carers, and the multidisciplinary team by establishing effective communication networks and demonstrating skills in empathy, reassurance and the ability to motivate others.
- Communicate complex assessment and treatment plans to individuals and their family/carers; dealing sensitively with distressing or emotional issues which are potentially emotive and respecting the dignity and rights of the individual and their family/carers e.g. encountering resistance, anger or aggression from carers/family who believe that the service user should be admitted to hospital.
- Establish and maintain excellent communication networks with members of the multiagency team, statutory organisations, private and voluntary sector as appropriate when planning a service user’s intervention.
- Be a point of reference for the team with regards to complex service user cases within the specialised area.
- Take a lead role in education and development of competencies of support staff via formal talks, on the job evaluation and competency based assessments.
- Contribute to educating individuals, carers, health professionals, about the management of health impairment and management within the service users social and physical environment.
- Maintain good working relationships with individuals’; their family/carers, colleagues, and personnel from statutory and non-statutory agencies.
- Deal appropriately and professionally with general enquires regarding the rehabilitation programme in accordance with local authority and UHB procedures and the operational policies: this may involve a pro-active approach to dealing with complaints.
- Provide education and/or training to: other health and social care professionals internal and external to the team; statutory and non-statutory agencies and the general public. Prepare presentations and handouts for these sessions.
- Use supervision and/or consultation in order to promote personal effectiveness.
- Have postgraduate experience in a specialist area related to physical rehabilitation.
- Maintain the highest possible clinical and professional standards, abide by national guidelines and standards relevant to clinical caseload and to take into account current evidenced based practice.
- Take responsibility for maintaining own competency to practice through Continuous Professional Development (CPD), and maintaining a professional portfolio in accordance with guidelines from the HCPC, which is required for professional registration.
- Develop specialist skills and expertise within the field of acute assessment and community rehabilitation.
- Undertake reflective practice and to contribute to the debate on a range of clinical issues relating to the delivery of services for across organisation boundaries.
- Contribute in the development of standards and outcome measurement for good practice for service users.
- Proactively engage with other Occupational Therapists, and staff of other professional groups to progress innovations and improvements in practice.
- Be able to balance professional issues such as confidentiality and duty of care in a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency setting in order to work effectively.
- Promote professionalism for Occupational Therapy, both internally and externally.
- Engage in regular supervision with the Clinical Lead.
- Acknowledge limitations in own practice and seek help to develop professional competencies/practice.
- Participate in performance appraisal reviews as an appraisee and appraiser.
- Be actively involved in peer support, development groups and occupational therapy specialist sections for the defined clinical area and other professional development activities, as appropriate.
- Identify and be responsible for own learning relevant to the clinical area and apply this specialist knowledge.
- Be responsible for keeping up-to-date with own mandatory training.
- Maintain and develop knowledge of evidence based practice in the areas of expertise, developing specialist knowledge of assessment, rehabilitation and discharge services.
- Be an active participant in the in-service training programme including: tutorials, individual training sessions, external courses and peer review.
- Contribute to the local training programme, demonstrating a willingness to learn.
- Use advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to identify barriers to improved health status and functional independence.
- Work with the individual to develop an appropriate intervention plan. The management of the individual’s barriers will potentially evoke extreme emotional responses from them. This will require sensitivity and empathy from Practitioners.
- Formulate individual intervention plans for service users based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and intervention options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of treatment interventions.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Registered member of the Health Professional Council. Evidence of commitment to CPD Post graduate training/ accreditation in fieldwork education
- Knowledge and understanding of factors which can influence discharge planning including: cognitive, physical, psychological and cultural
- Knowledge of broad range of medical, surgical and orthopaedic conditions
- Knowledge and application of principles of clinical governance and risk management Experience of service delivery in a variety of different clinical physical health settings
Desirable criteria
- Management qualifications e.g. ILM
- Knowledge of standardized and non-standardized assessments that can be used with service user group
- Knowledge of national drivers for health provision for service user group e.g. Setting the Direction, Together for Health, Integrated Approaches, NSF
- Interest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluation
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to unpredictable, challenging work environments
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work well under pressure within a multi/inter disciplinary team
- Ability to work within a multi-agency team
- Able to present and interpret data
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of effective teaching skills
- Evidence of delivering competency based learning
- Welsh Desirable (Level 3/B2 or above in Speaking/Listening)
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
- Donna Pace
- Job title
- Team Leader / Arweinydd Tîm
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443766
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