Generic Therapy Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Pontypridd, United Kingdom Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Full time

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a newly established Pulmonary Rehabilitation multi disciplinary team, covering the Rhondda Cynnon Taf and Merthyr areas in Cwm Taf University Health Board. The post holder will be involved in the planning and delivery of the new service, providing Chronic Respiratory Disease sufferers with holistic rehabilitation. Within the team you will be supported by Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Dietetic colleagues, and will have opportunities to develop skills to enable you to support all three disciplines.

The post will be very varied, with work in community and hospital settings, providing support to respiratory patients via group and 1:1 education and physical activity. The post holder will need to work well within a team and embrace change and improvement, and be passionate about supporting patients with behavior change in long term condition management.

Additionally, your progression is important to us. CTM has an excellent L&D offer as well as support for external learning. Your wellbeing matters to us and we are proud of the work our wellbeing champions do across therapies and the range of activities that are on offer.

To work as part of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service to undertake specific clinical tasks to promote independence, health and well-being, implement intervention programmes and support service users as instructed and delegated by the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietician, responding flexibly to the needs of the service. you will be delegated a caseload of non-complex patients to deliver interventions, prescribed by and under supervision of the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietetics staff.

You will be delegated administrative tasks, participate in project work, audits and provision of relevant statistics for the benefit of patients or the service.

The post holder will need to be able to prioritise their own work and carry out duties, as prescribed by the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietetics staff, making reference to Team Lead regarding management or service issues when necessary

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

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.

Supporting the Physiotherapists/ Occupational Therapists and dietetics in the delivery of the Pulmonary rehabilitation service and level three rehabilitation offer 1 day a week.

To work as part of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service to undertake specific clinical and administrative tasks, implement intervention programmes and support service users as instructed and delegated by the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and dietician, responding flexibly to the needs of the service.

Support the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietetics staff by assisting with all modalities of therapeutic care for patients.

To provide care to the patients, as delegated by the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietetics staff to the extent of own competencies.

Participate in project work, audits and provision of relevant statistics which may be for the benefit of patients or the service.

To promote independence, health and well-being.

Develop a patient centred approach to engaging patients in routine therapeutic occupations following the aims/methods given by the Therapist and to adjust own clinical interventions based on the fluctuating needs of the person.

Carry a delegated caseload of non-complex patients to deliver interventions prescribed by and under supervision of the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietetics staff.

To prioritise own work and carry out duties, as prescribed by the Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Dietetics staff, making reference to Team Lead regarding management or service issues when necessary



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