Specialist Occupational Therapist - Bridgend, United Kingdom - Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Bridgend, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Permanent

Description

Job summary

Would you like to specialise in Older Persons Mental Health? We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist Occupational Therapist to join our supportive inpatient team to continue their development and supervise a small Occupational Therapy Team. The Occupational Therapy Team cover 2 wards, both service users with organic and functional mental health diagnosis.

We are continuing to evolve our clinical practices, and striving to make a positive difference to each person we encounter. There will opportunities for you to engage with and facilitate in service learning opportunities to increase your skills and experiences, along with others.

You will also have the opportunity to experience working both within a ward setting, as well as supporting service users in the community to reintegrate back to their home environments and typical daily routines. You will have opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills, by supervising registered and non-registered staff.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention and rehabilitation to service users who are experiencing a range of mental health issues. You will facilitate cognitive and functional recovery, prompt discharge planning to enable the person to remain in their home for as long as it's safe to do so.

You will provide supervision and support to other members of the team and student Occupational Therapists. You will demonstrate a commitment for delivering evidence based, quality intervention using research, audit and quality improvement projects as delegated by the band 7 team lead. The post holder will be flexible to the service needs, possess excellent self-management skills and administer their caseload efficiently to ensure effective individualised assessment and intervention.

We are looking for a candidate that is motivated, enthusiastic with exceptional communication and people skills. Someone who has in-depth knowledge and experience working within Older Person's Mental Health Services and understand and adapt to the unpredictability this type of environment can bring.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh 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 description

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

Education/Qualifications /Training

Essential

Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Post graduate training/ accreditation in fieldwork education

Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council

Evidence of commitment to CPD

Desirable

Membership of professional body

Post-graduate training in motivational interviewing, goal planning

Management qualifications ILM

Skills

Essential

Able to present and interpret data

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance

Well developed written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate in a way which will neither offend nor antagonise

Autonomous practitioner with excellent personal organisational skills for caseload management, including time management and prioritisation skills

Ability to work independently with individuals

Computer literate and able to use software packages/internet

Demonstrable clinical reasoning skills, and able to make effective clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases

Ability to negotiate with others where opinions differ

Desirable

Evidence of effective teaching skills

Evidence of delivering competency based learning

Education

Essential

oPost graduate clinical experience with at least 6 months in area of older persons mental health

oExperience of service delivery in a variety of different clinical mental health settings

oExperience of effective one-to-one and group interactions

Experience of research and audit

oExperience of applying professional theory to practice

oExperience of delivering training and education to support staff

oExperience of supervision

Desirable

oAwareness of current professional issues

oAbility to use reflective practice based on current evidence

oExperience of advising/teaching other professions

oExperience of presenting information to a variety of audiences

oExperience in an acute setting and/or the community

oExperience of cross organisational working

Knowledge

Essential

oKnowledge of broad range of mental health conditions.

oKnowledge and understanding of factors which can influence discharge planning including: cognitive, physical, psychological and cultural

oKnowledge and application of principles of clinical governance and risk management

oKnowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working

oDetailed knowledge and understanding of professional ethics/standards and code of conduct, and their application in practice

oHealth and safety awareness

oKnowledge of issues relating to health records and the ability to apply this ( Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act)

oEvidence of critical appraisal/analytical thought.

oKnowledge of graded therapeutic interventions.

Desirable

oKnowledge of standardised and non-standardised assessments that can be used with service user group

oKnowledge of national drivers for health provision for service user group Setting the Direction, Together for Mental Health, Living well with Dementia, Mental Health Measure, Nice Guidelines, NSF

oInterest and involvement in quality, audit and service evaluation

oUnderstanding of the theory and practical application goal orientated approach

Circumstances Mobility/Availability-special attendance requirements

Essential

Ability to be mobile around geographical patch

Desirable

oCar driver

Physical Requirements and attributes

Essential

oPhysically fit to undertake duties moving service users/equipment,

Any other special requirements not covered by 1-7 above

Essential

oCommitment to service user centred, non-discriminatory practice

Desirable

oWide range of interests.

Personal Attributes

Essential

oWillingness to embrace innovative working practices cross organisational boundary working

oAbility to appraise own performance and identify areas for own personal development

oAble to make positive use of clinical supervision

oProfessional confidence and ability to work autonomously

oApproachable and considerate

oReliable, conscientious and hard-working

oAbility to establish rapport quickly with service users

oEmbrace change and new developments

oEnjoys using own initiative and is self-motivated, innovative and creative

oAbility to work flexibly and respond to unpredictable, challenging work environments to help the needs of the service

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