Job overview

Are you a Physiotherapist looking for a new and exciting opportunity that will positively challenge your clinical skills and creative thinking? Do you like working in an acute, fast paced environment where you can have an immediate impact on a person's outcome? And are you excited by change and the idea of contributing to the development and direction of an evolving team? If so, this could be the job for you!

We are looking for compassionate and motivated practitioners with a passion for person centred care to join our multidisciplinary Community Admissions Avoidance Therapy Team (CAATT) working in the Medical Admissions Unit in the Royal Gwent Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The CAATT service is based at the ‘front door’ of hospitals across ABUHB and provides a rapid response to people (adults), completing assessments and interventions with the primary aim being to consider and facilitate home in the first instance and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. To support this, further assessments or interventions in patients homes are also undertaken when required.

When admission is necessary CAATT initiate early therapy interventions and guide the person to the right place to address their ongoing needs with the aims of promoting timely discharges, reduced lengths of stay and reduced readmission rates.

The post holder will be a Physiotherapist and will be supervised and mentored by a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to provide this specialist professional service. In addition, the post holder will work closely with a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist to provide the CAATT service to to Royal Gwent Hospital and, with the support of a robust competency package, they will work in an interdisciplinary / blurred boundary manner across the professions of Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy to provide holistic and prudent therapy interventions. 

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.