Clinical Specialist Therapist - CAATT inYstrad Mynach inYstrad Mynach PUBLISHED TUE 31 DEC 2024

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job Overview

Are you looking for a new challenge and have an interest in working in the acute medical unit environment? Do you have a passion for service development, leadership and opportunities to work within an integrated fast paced service aimed at delivering care closer to home?

We are excited to present this new Band 7 post for either a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist or a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist within the Community Admissions Avoidance Therapies Team (CAATT). The successful applicant will work closely with registered Therapists and Assistant Therapy Practitioner’s as part of a multi-professional therapies team to provide a rapid response service to people attending the Acute Medical Units in The Royal Gwent Hospital and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.

This post offers a fantastic opportunity to develop leadership, clinical, operational and management skills working as part of the urgent care MDT. Furthermore, as this is an evolving service there will be excellent opportunities to develop, implement, measure and evaluate change for the purpose of Quality Improvement.

The post holder will, in line with all CAATT clinical staff, consider the wellbeing of service users and support their choices with the aims of reducing unnecessary admissions to hospital, facilitating safe early discharges, reducing lengths of stay and reducing readmission rates in accordance with the Discharge to Recover and Assess (D2RA), Home First and Clinical Futures vision across ABUHB.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assess the ability of individuals to manage daily activities and liaise with the families, carers and advocates as well as the Local Authority Community Care Division, Hospital Bed Management and the Discharge Liaison Teams, in order to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital. They will advise medical staff regarding the potential for discharge where an individual has been admitted for observation or assessment.

CAATT Therapists undertake assessments and interventions to promote independence; self-management; compensatory strategies; functional assessment and education. In order to achieve. In order to complete this, there will be a requirement to undertake blurred boundary/interprofessional working with competencies aligned to Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Dietetics supported by robust competency and review frameworks. The post holder will also bring Highly Specialist skills from their relevant profession which will be utilised in their assessments and interventions as well as facilitating supervision, mentoring and development of staff across CAATT.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

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 speciality 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.

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to adapt to changes in work routine
• Clear reason for specific job application
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to speak welsh
• IT Literate
  
  

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to discuss complex cases and clinical reasoning
• Ability to act upon adverse clinical signs
• Good verbal communication
• Ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to discuss ad apply clinical governance
• Excellent knowledge of relevant national and local clinical guidelines
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IT Literate
• Awareness of research principles and findings and the impact on clinical practice
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience at band 6 level in this specialist area
• Significant post graduate clinical experience
• Experience of audit
• Experiencing of supervising staff
• Experience of having worked unsupervised at band 6 level
  
  

Desirable criteria

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