Senior Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Are you an Occupational Therapist 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) presenting with conditions that have impacted their ability to live in their usual manner. The team undertake assessments and interventions in the hospital emergency department and medical admissions units 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 may also be required.

When admission is necessary CAATT promotes timely discharges, reduced lengths of stay and reduced readmission rates through early initiation of therapy interventions and guiding the person to the right place to address their ongoing needs.

The post holder will be an Occupational Therapists, supervised and mentored by Highly specialist Occupational therapist to provide this specialist professional service. However, they will also work in an interdisciplinary / blurred boundary manner with competencies covering the professions of Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy to provide holistic and prudent therapy interventions.

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

About us

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.