Principal Occupational Therapist
Job Description
Job summary
Are you a highly motivated senior Occupational Therapist wanting to develop their leadership skills? Are you looking for a new challenge for 2025?
Then this is the perfect time to come and join our expanding and developing Occupational Therapy Leadership Team!!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and innovative Occupational Therapist to lead and develop the Physical Occupational Therapy Service based in Princess of Wales Hospital at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
This post provides a unique opportunity for an Occupational Therapist with significant experience of working within physical services as well as colleagues in health, and social care.
The post holder will work with colleagues across health and social care to embed D2RA and maintain patient flow through the acute hospital site. The post holder will be expected to work alongside colleagues in the co-design of new services, as well as ensuring the delivery of an evidence-based, high quality and efficient service.
We are an innovative team, developing new ways of working to meet increasing demands and the successful applicant will be a part of this exciting transformation. The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to work flexibly and creatively in both the leadership and clinical aspects of the role.
Main duties of the job
Inherent within the role is a responsibility for
- Undertaking all aspects of clinical and managerial responsibilities as an autonomous practitioner for a team of OTs and support staff
- Providing a client-centered, evidence-based service to adults with both complex and varied needs.
- Training and development of staff in OT, other disciplines and other agencies
- Managing a small, caseload within the service to of support the delivery of services.
- Leading in service development, utilising a strong evidence- base and innovations in practice to ensure best management of resources and best outcomes for children and young people, and their families/carers
- Representing the OT service, the profession and service users within the wider health, social, and political community, including All Wales and National Forums
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council
- Post graduate training in clinical education Evidence of commitment to CPD
- Evidence of ability to work at Masters level and/or management qualifications e.g ILM or clinical leadership
- Specialist knowledge of professional assessments and interventions relevant to Physical inpatient OT services
- Knowledge and understanding of evidence base and and current agenda/drivers for health, social care and education policy including legislation
- Detailed knowledge and application of principles of clinical governance and risk management
- Evidence of critical appraisal/analytical thought
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
Desirable
- Knoweldge of standardised and non standardised assessments
- Interest and involvement quality, audit and service evaluation
- Detailed understanding of the principles of partnership working
- Membership of professional body
- Knowledge of national drivers for health provision
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of professional ethics / standards and Code of Conduct
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in specialist area/leadership related to post.
- Evidence of strong clinical/team leadership
- Evidence of working across organisational boundaries and managing change effectively
- Experience MDT/multi-agency working
- Experience of supervision of junior/support staff/students
- Experience of research and audit and implementing this into clinical practice
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice into own and others clinical work
Desirable
- Awareness of current professional issues
- Experinece of advising/teaching
- Experience at professional grade equivalent
- Experience of supervisory skills including appraisal
- Extensive clinical experience
Aptitude and Ability
Essential
- Ability to effectively lead a team
- Professional confidence to represent service on relevant issues
- Demonstrable interpersonal and communication skills when challenging situations arise eg. negotiating change
- Professional confidence to represent the service
- Autonomous practitioner with excellent organisation and time management
- Computer literate
- Demonstrate clinical reasoning and effective decisions with complex cases
- Servive evaluation and implementing change
- Ability to reflect and objectively appraise own and others performance
- Ability to work independently with individuals and groups
- Ability to negotiate
- Demonstrate high level skills in service evaluation and implementing change
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh
Pesonal Qualities
Essential
- Able to engage and lead a multi professional/organisational team
- Ability to self reflect on own and others behaviours in order to improve services for patients/service users
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel around geographical patch in a timely manner
- Committed to continuous improvement and personal development
- Robust personal and professional coping strategies
Other
Essential
- Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice
- Reliable, conscientious
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Address
Princess of Wales Hospital
New Road
Bridgend
CF31 1RQ