Job summary
This is a brand new post within the Health Community Support Team, for the Health Board.
This service will provide intermediate care, support and rapid access to mutli professional intervention in order to support patients from discharge from hospital and avoid unneccessary admissions into hospital.
You will be operationally managing the AHP resource within this service, which will work across the Health Board.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder is identified as a highly skilled, senior practitioner with expert knowledge in Community and Intermediate Care.
- The post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership for AHP's working within the service.
- The post holder will work with the community, primary care and admission avoidance teams across the health board and local authorities to respond in a timely way to urgent patients.
- The post holder will take a lead on the continuing development of the Intermediate Care Service and its strategic and operational planning.
- The post holder will undertake research and development on an ongoing basis, leading clinical audit and research associated with the Intermediate Care Service.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be bale to find a full job description and person specification attached with supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be bale to find a full job description and person specification attached with supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy or Physiotherapy
- Post graduate Diploma level in relevant area.
- Professional registration as recognised by HCPC. Evidence of attendance on relevant short courses.
- Knowledge of Health and Social Care legislation. Knowledge of current health and social care policies and application in clinical area.
- Leadership/Management qualification or evidence of management development e.g. leadership/coaching/mentoring.
- Evidence of knowledge/experience or qualification in research and audit. Knowledge of the requirements of clinical governance.
- Knowledge of Health Issues affecting the local population and strategies in place to support improvement in these areas.
- Evidence of professional development. Fieldwork education training qualification.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
Desirable
- Member of professional body. Member of relevant specialist interest group.
- Project/programme development experience.
- Knowledge of current agenda for health and social care provision.
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of health and socio-economic factors on the health of the local population.
- Knowledge of change management principles.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post graduate experience. Extensive experience of operational management and supervision of staff
- Extensive experience of managing a complex caseload. Inter-professional and multiagency team working.
- Experience of working within an intermediate care setting. Direct involvement with carers and families.
- Negotiation of service development. Evidence of supporting service compliance with clinical governance requirements.
- Experience of appropriate delegation and supervision. Evidence of student supervision. Extensive practical experience of human resource management, operational management and clinical/operational supervision.
- Experience of developing service, clinical and professional standards and policies. Experience of planning and delivering formal and informal teaching.
- Evidence of implementing clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experienced of working towards defined/busy deadlines. Experience of participating in national and local professional forums.
Desirable
- Negotiation of multidisciplinary working arrangements.
- Leadership of clinical networks/clinical practice groups.
- Leading service developments and change.
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Resource management skills. Ability to work under pressure with competing priorities to meet deadlines and address volume of work.
- Ability to motivate and lead. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to use highly specialist clinical reasoning. Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Ability to discuss and challenge clinical reasoning process of others. Ability to manage complex and contentious issues.
- Advanced problem solving and negotiation skills. Organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to concentrate in and cope within challenging environments, including highly emotional or distressing circumstances and distressing clinical situations. An ability to communicate complex information to colleagues and partners in external organisations at a national and international level.
- Ability to focus on service objectives and to deliver on these. Demonstrates critical appraisal skills. Ability to focus on research and project objectives and to deliver on these.
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders. Proven team worker.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, empathy and diplomacy. Ability to work under self-direction. Flexible approach to work, adaptable and creative.
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions on a daily basis. Ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling, equipment and advanced manual treatment techniques.
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
- Ability to work flexibly
- Able to carry out full range of duties, including travel throughout CTMUHB and community sites in a timely manner.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy or Physiotherapy
- Post graduate Diploma level in relevant area.
- Professional registration as recognised by HCPC. Evidence of attendance on relevant short courses.
- Knowledge of Health and Social Care legislation. Knowledge of current health and social care policies and application in clinical area.
- Leadership/Management qualification or evidence of management development e.g. leadership/coaching/mentoring.
- Evidence of knowledge/experience or qualification in research and audit. Knowledge of the requirements of clinical governance.
- Knowledge of Health Issues affecting the local population and strategies in place to support improvement in these areas.
- Evidence of professional development. Fieldwork education training qualification.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
Desirable
- Member of professional body. Member of relevant specialist interest group.
- Project/programme development experience.
- Knowledge of current agenda for health and social care provision.
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of health and socio-economic factors on the health of the local population.
- Knowledge of change management principles.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post graduate experience. Extensive experience of operational management and supervision of staff
- Extensive experience of managing a complex caseload. Inter-professional and multiagency team working.
- Experience of working within an intermediate care setting. Direct involvement with carers and families.
- Negotiation of service development. Evidence of supporting service compliance with clinical governance requirements.
- Experience of appropriate delegation and supervision. Evidence of student supervision. Extensive practical experience of human resource management, operational management and clinical/operational supervision.
- Experience of developing service, clinical and professional standards and policies. Experience of planning and delivering formal and informal teaching.
- Evidence of implementing clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experienced of working towards defined/busy deadlines. Experience of participating in national and local professional forums.
Desirable
- Negotiation of multidisciplinary working arrangements.
- Leadership of clinical networks/clinical practice groups.
- Leading service developments and change.
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Resource management skills. Ability to work under pressure with competing priorities to meet deadlines and address volume of work.
- Ability to motivate and lead. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to use highly specialist clinical reasoning. Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Ability to discuss and challenge clinical reasoning process of others. Ability to manage complex and contentious issues.
- Advanced problem solving and negotiation skills. Organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to concentrate in and cope within challenging environments, including highly emotional or distressing circumstances and distressing clinical situations. An ability to communicate complex information to colleagues and partners in external organisations at a national and international level.
- Ability to focus on service objectives and to deliver on these. Demonstrates critical appraisal skills. Ability to focus on research and project objectives and to deliver on these.
- Able to maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders. Proven team worker.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, empathy and diplomacy. Ability to work under self-direction. Flexible approach to work, adaptable and creative.
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions on a daily basis. Ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling, equipment and advanced manual treatment techniques.
Other Role Requirements
Essential
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
- Ability to work flexibly
- Able to carry out full range of duties, including travel throughout CTMUHB and community sites in a timely manner.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
