Occupational Therapist Paediatric Team Lead

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

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

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

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To act as a team leader responsible for the day to day management of the Occupational Therapy department in POW. Efficiently and effectively balancing patient care and staff management (clinical supervision, time management, sickness, annual leave, study).

To impart knowledge and skills guiding further knowledge acquisition acting as a mentor and delivering OT services to children and young people with special and complex physical difficulties in the community across CTUHB.

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

Main duties of the job

Working closely with hospital, community, education and local authority based multi-disciplinary teams in order to maintain continuity of service and to be responsible for the effective treatment and management of children/young people with special needs and complex physical difficulties, in order to maximise potential and self-management.

Act as a specialist clinical resource, disseminating expert information to colleagues, general public and other healthcare professionals.

Be responsible for implementing change and monitoring standards or practice within the OT team and influencing MDT practice.

To take a major role in the advanced assessment and treatment of children and young people who may have complex presentations. To contribute to diagnosis reporting clinical observations and interpretations, complications associated with their conditions.

Take the lead with triaging paediatric patients, ensuring that patients are seen by the most appropriate healthcare professional.

To develop the service for children and young people across the Paediatric OT service using Advanced Clinical Decision Making and Care Aims, to deliver efficient and effective care addressing those most at high risk/high need. Address demand and capacity using these tools across the service.

To take a lead role in the education of stakeholders on the role of Occupational Therapy and maximising service provision and planning in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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/Knowledge

• Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy
• HCPC Registration.
• Evidence of attendance on post-graduate courses and advanced training to Masters level equivalence.
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent post graduate courses/advanced training to Masters level equivalent

• Member of RCOT Specialist Section
• Leadership/management qualification, e.g. ILM

Experience

• Extensive experience working within paediatric OT for children and young people with highly complex, physical needs.
• Managing a complex caseload and advanced clinical decision making abilities
• Experience of audit/ research (clinical and organisational).
• Providing professional development and clinical education of junior staff, students and assistants

• Leadership and representation in clinical networks/practice groups.
• Ability to use reflective practice based on current evidence.
• Experience of advising/teaching other professions.
• Awareness of current professional issues
• Experience of Compassionate leadership

Skills

• Excellent communication skills (verbal, nonverbal and written).
• Ability to carry out a range of assessments to support therapy planning and evaluation of progress
• Clear understanding of Universal, Targeted and Specialist OT provision for Children and Young People.
• Work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities. Ability to manage own time and a clinical caseload, and to describe ways of prioritising work

• The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level
• Experience in presenting to other professionals

Qualities

• Self-motivated and capable of motivating others.
• Able to set priorities and deliver against targets.
• Innovative and passionate for the area of Children and Young People.
• Acceptance of responsibility for self and others

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.