Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Children's centre, St David's Hospital
Town: Cardiff
Salary per annum: Closing 20/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 10/04/2025
Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Band 7
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 16,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. We serve a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, focusing on health and care needs while developing regional services.
OUR REGION:
Wales offers stunning coastline, UNESCO world heritage sites, and beautiful countryside. Cardiff, the Welsh capital, has an abundance of sports, arts, and cultural attractions. The Vale of Glamorgan combines beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline.
Job overview
If you are enthusiastic about working with children and young people and delivering high-quality occupational therapy, this job is for you. You will join our innovative, child and family-focused team of community occupational therapists and work alongside our wide-ranging OT-CYP service to deliver meaningful, timely care.
Main duties of the job
You will carry a caseload of children and young people with diverse diagnoses and support weekly clinics with junior staff, enabling their development. You will manage cases where family resilience is lower and run clinical forums/training. Excellent communication skills and demonstrable UHB values and behaviours are essential.
Working for our organisation
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff. We are committed to promoting inclusion and welcome applications from everyone.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will 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
* Degree/MSc
* SI level 1/CYPFSC membership
Experience
* Complexity/clinical teaching
Skills and Knowledge
* Caseload and time management/audit/Education
Specialist Knowledge
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
* Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion and welcome applications from everyone. We value our differences and advocate for an inclusive working environment.
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.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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