Experienced Occupational Therapist

Train Work Live; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage allowance

Lease car scheme

Job summary

Hywel Dda University Health Board is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Community Integrated Stroke Team in Ceredigion, delivering home-based rehabilitation and supporting patients to return home from acute units.

You will work within a multi-professional team, provide person-centred care, travel within the county, and participate in service improvement with supervision and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Degree in Occupational Therapy and HCPC registration.
• Experience as OT in community settings.
• Ability to travel within the County and surrounding areas.

Responsibilities

• Autonomously manage an occupational therapy caseload including complex presentations.
• Work within a multi-professional team to deliver rehabilitation and reablement.
• Collaborate with health, local authorities and third sector for best outcomes; support supervision and development.
• Delegate and supervise OT staff, students and volunteers as required.

Skills

Welsh language ability

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

Job description

Our Hywel Dda values reflect who we are and how we behave. We continuously work together to be the best we can be as we strive to develop and deliver excellent services, putting people at the heart of everything we do. Throughout our recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you would demonstrate these values in the way that you work with us.

Hywel Dda University Health Board reserve the right to close vacancies after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. We encourage early applications to ensure consideration for a post.

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our developing Community Integrated Stroke Team in Ceredigion, supporting people who have predominantly experienced a stroke, to return home from our acute stroke and rehabilitation units.

If you have a passion for stroke rehabilitation, combined with community working, this could be the opportunity for you. The role is focussed on delivering rehabilitation at home and in the local community, to support transition from hospital, ongoing recovery, and return to independence.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-professional team, working closely with our acute stroke teams and wider community services, to deliver person-centred care and a rehabilitation pathway, that ensures continuity and a positive experience for our population.

Successful applicants will have some experience of working with people who have experienced stroke and/ or other life changing events and enjoy working as part of a multi-professional team, within a community setting. Whilst the role focusses on stroke, we require therapists who are adaptable to meet needs of patients with multiple and varying conditions, as well as service priorities.

You will have the support of an occupational therapy service which values supervision, actively promotes continuous professional development, and is committed to excellent patient care and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

As an Occupational Therapist, you will autonomously manage an occupational therapy caseload of a designated client group, which includes those with complex presentations. This will involve selecting and undertaking assessments, developing person centred plans, delivering interventions, evaluating outcomes and adapting plan of care based on outcomes.

You will work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide rehabilitation/recovery/reablement focussed on the needs of the individual.

Working collaboratively with colleagues from Health, Local Authorities and Third Sector Organisations to achieve best outcomes, you will support the induction, education and development of others and support quality improvement, taking responsibility for defined projects.

You will appropriately delegate work to, and supervise the work of, Occupational Therapists, Support Workers, Students and Volunteers as required.

Due to the nature of the role you will need to be able to travel on a daily basis within the County, as well as being flexible to travel across the Health Board on occasions. Mileage allowance is payable and a lease car scheme is available.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.

We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
• Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

As a health board our values are aligned to putting people at the heart of what we do.

There is support to continue learning and develop, and supervision.

You will have a buddy the first few weeks as part of your induction into our occupational therapy team; there will be formal supervision monthly, as well as informal when required. You will have a Personal Development appraisal to support learning and development. Hywel Dda offers a wide range of learning within its own trust. There are options for flexible working and part time.

We have pool cars if required, and mileage expenses for travelling to patients homes.

As an Occupational Therapy service, we recognise that our staff are our strongest asset and investment into the individual as a person as much as their professional development is important. We actively promote post-graduate study with shared funding opportunities. The pandemic has taught us more than ever the importance of work life balance and we encourage remote working when appropriate and flexible working arrangements.

The post holder will be required to participate in the provision of a flexible 7 day service, based on service need. This will be on a rota basis.

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.

The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Interviews will be held on 26/11/2026.

Person specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Current HCPC registration
• Understanding of the roles of other staff groups in health and social care
• Knowledge of a range of rehabilitation interventions across all therapies
• Understanding and application of relevant outcome measures to demonstrate effectiveness
• Knowledge of relevant current health and social care legislation applicable to role
• Knowledge of relevant current health and social care legislation applicable to role
• Knowledge of Health Board and priorities
• Knowledge of relevant current health and social care legislation applicable to role
• Knowledge of Health Board and priorities
• Knowledge and application of Microsoft Office software
• Understanding and application of clinical governance, including research and audit methodology
• Working knowledge of therapeutic equipment
• Accredited Agored Assessor
• Knowledge of other services that link across primary/second ary/intermediate care
• Knowledge of Health Board and priorities

Experience

• Significant post graduate experience of working as an occupational therapist across a range of settings and variety of conditions
• Working independently with indirect or arms length supervision
• Delegation and Supervision of staff
• Experience of coping independently with distressing or emotional situations in challenging work environments.
• Direct involvement with carers and families
• Use of adapted techniques for improving patient outcomes
• Managing a complex and varied caseload
• Working as part of a team
• Experience of contributing to service development and implementing service changes
• Self-development and application of learning
• Experience of working with groups
• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience in same clinical area as post being applied for
• Experience of using virtual communication platforms for delivering service

Language Skills

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1)

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.