Assistant Practitioner

This is a fantastic opportunity for 6 assistant practitioners to join the team at the beginning of this exciting new service. You will be involved in the implementation of a falls service across CTM

This service will provide falls advice, assessment, and intervention when needed at local venues. We are developing a service that looks at both prevention and intervention - expanding on some exciting work already going on in CTM and making this available to our whole community.

The team will work with an individual and their carer to make decisions about the best way to reduce the risk of the person falling, raise awareness of risk factors for falling and make any necessary changes to their home to prevent falls.

We are creating innovative offers of assessment, advice and intervention, building strong integrated teams and designing a seamless pathway for our patients with our patients.

You will be valued as an integral part of the service development.

Your career progression is important to us and CTM has an excellent L&D offer as well as support for external learning. You will be supported in this role to develop your skills in this area and be provided with the supervision and education needed to enable you and the team to feel confident in being a part of starting this new service.

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.

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Support Allied Health Professions (AHP) namely Occupational Therapists (OT) and Physiotherapists (PT) in the delivery of AHP intervention for patients in their own homes and community, to prevent and manage falls.

To work as part of the CTM Falls Prevention and Management Team to undertake specific clinical and administrative tasks, liaise with health colleagues, Local Authorities and third sector organisations to ensure care for patients within the CTMUHB/ Bridgend/RCT/Merthyr County Boroughs as instructed and delegated by the AHP, responding flexibly to the needs of the service.

Support the AHP staff by assisting with all modalities of therapeutic care focussed toward maintaining the patient within their own home and community and the prevention of avoidable falls and subsequent effects.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English 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.