Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
If you are enthusiastic about working with children and young people and have a keenness for 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 and the MDT to deliver meaningful, timely care.
The services has transformed care and enables access for parent and professional to unstreamed training and workshops. This aims to empower the child/young person and those closest to them to remove barriers to occupational performance and live their best life. You will provide assessment, diagnostic formulation and active support for children and young people and work closely with the MDT to provide timely, effective and expert care. You will also provide advice, consultation, and training to parents and local partners so confidence leadership, clinical practice, research skills and ability to educate others will be developed within this exciting role.
Main duties of the job
The Occupational Therapy service benefits from a range of clinical specialist roles across acute, community and special schools. This role forms part of the leadership team which is creating and embedding new innovations to support efficient and effective service delivery. You will work with the team to ensure the workforce gains the right knowledge and experience to create a sustainable service for the future.
You will carry a caseload of CYP with diverse diagnosis and layered barriers and strengths to occupational participation. You will support weekly clinics with junior staff, enabling their development and advance reasoning. You will manage cases where family resilience is lower impacting complaints and education dispute.
You will run clinical forums/training to the OT and wider MDT; coproducing training for parents and schools from the OT-CYP team. You will support delivery of the advice line, requiring you to be able to respond to queries, signpost and advise. The role requires you to have excellent communication skills and demonstrable UHB values and behaviours.
Your learning will be supported by supervision (individual, peer and group); Value Based Appraisal; access to external training and access to CPD sessions across the children and women's services and the wider therapy services in Cardiff and Vale.
This is a split post between 2 sites.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focused on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is "Caring for People, Keeping People Well", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
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
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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
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