Senior Occupational Therapist

apartmentAneurin Bevan University Health Board placeMonmouth calendar_month01/02/2025

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.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process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

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner, working within codes of practice and will manage a varied and complex caseload providing
highly skilled Occupational Therapy intervention for Monmouthshire residents who are in their own home and in-patients at Monnow Vale
Health and Social Care Facility Monmouth. To facilitate the maintenance and improvement in their wellbeing to complete their activities of
daily living, through Reablement and any other OT Intervention that may be required. Peers or external reference points may provide

guidance

Main duties of the job

To practice occupational therapy safely.

To plan and prioritise own patient workload.

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To assess and address occupational therapy performance skills in the areas of mobility, sensory deficits, intrapersonal skills, intrapersonal

areas and cognitive skills, self-care, productivity and leisure.

To assess and interpret patient conditions and provide occupational therapy interventions in cases presenting a high degree of complexity

in an autonomous manner.

Communicates condition related information, sensitive information to patients and families which requires empathy & reassurance.

Supporting them to take responsibility for decision making and goal setting.

To identify and order equipment needed for patients to maintain their independence within their home environment.
To maintain records and documentation required by work settings in accordance with the Monmouthshire Integrated Service and COT

standards.

To attend and participate in wards rounds/case conferences/MDT’s.
To adhere to the COT code of professional conduct and ethics including confidentiality.

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. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To demonstrate specialist knowledge relevant to the application of occupational therapy in one or more clinical areas.

To carry out specialist occupational therapy techniques.
To carry out specialist manual handling assessments and provide plans for others to follow in accordance to health and safety practice

guidance, to help maintain the well-being of individuals and those assisting with manual handling tasks.

To analyse, evaluate, interpret and communicate an overview of the patterns of referral, interventions and outcomes of intervention.
To take personal responsibility for own workload within a specialist area of practice.
To draw on evidence to justify own practice.
To be proficient in reasoning and in determining intervention strategies in complex situations and individual’s with complex needs.
To lead and be proactive in developing clinical networks as a shared governance activity.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Degree or postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Therapy
HCPC Registration

Desirable criteria

Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions relevant to client group
Practice Placement Educator

Experience

Essential criteria

Evidence of CPD Commitment to lifelong learning

Desirable criteria

Membership of BAOT Membership of relevant special interest groups Apple accreditation

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK.

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

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