Physiotherapy Team Leader

Job summary

Team Lead Physiotherapist for the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Primary Fatigue Service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative Physiotherapy Team Leader to Lead the newly developed Primary Fatigue Service based in Dewi Sant Hospital, Pontypridd. This is a health board wide service, an evolution of the previous Long Covid Rehabilitation Service to a symptom lead model.

The post holder will be a skilled and experienced practitioner and will be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise in fatigue management and have experience of leading a multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will need to work to develop the Primary Fatigue Service in line with the Adferiad (Recovery) model. The successful applicant will deliver specialist level 4 intervention in clinic, remote, group and home settings; develop level 3 and 4 group intervention content, lead MDT meetings, supervise junior staff and students and operationally manage the service.

Main duties of the job

Acting within their professional boundaries, the post holder will provide support and intervention for the presenting person through holistic person- centred assessment, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care within set parameters and across the multi-agency team approach. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision -making and expert care and support for people within the Primary Fatigue Service.

The successful applicant will have a significant role in the leadership of the team supporting and developing those staff and will also have responsibility for students on placement from undergraduate physiotherapy programmes

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

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is a 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.