Job Overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Occupational Therapist to join our Community Mental Health Team in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. You will be based with our supportive and friendly community team, providing valuable support focused on the needs of the individual. You will be a key member within a multidisciplinary team supporting an integrated model of care. You will provide assessment and intervention for patients living in the community. As part of an integrated team you will work closely with acute, intermediate and primary care. In promoting health and person centred care you will develop strong links with community based resources to help engage and motivate individuals in their recovery. We're seeking to appoint a motivated and compassionate individual with demonstrable experience, whose values are aligned to those of Hywel Dda University Health Board: putting people at the heart of what we do working together to be the best we can striving to develop and deliver better services Main duties of the job To practice as an autonomous practitioner with a complex specialist caseload, to plan, modify & carry out assessment and interventions/treatments. To act as a care coordinator to a delegated caseload with defined Occupational Therapy needs. To formulate and apply relevant occupational analysis to the individual, using graded occupations as an essential aspect of the assessment and treatment. To agree goals and priorities for intervention and the methods to be adopted based on results of assessment, best practice and in partnership with the patient and multidisciplinary team. To design and implement individual or group treatment programmers to address defined clinical needs. To utilise group dynamics to achieve agreed therapeutic objectives. To monitor, modify and evaluate intervention in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention. To advise and support patient during psychological adaptation to disability. To provide advice and support to relatives, carers and others as appropriate. To work independently with patients, taking responsibility for the patient's safety when undertaking OT intervention. To make clinical judgments on the appropriateness and priority of referrals for Occupational Therapy and on the need for referral to other services. To carry out environmental risk assessment. To be able to define a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessments. Working for our organisation Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through: Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest; Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire; 47 general practices (6 of which are managed practices), 45 dental practices (including 4 orthodontic), 96 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres; Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services; Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales. 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