Advanced Occupational Therapist - Hands & Upper Limb

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital and Charity; Birmingham; Vor Ort; GBP 42.000 - 54.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 7 Advanced Occupational Therapist to lead the Regional Paediatric Hands and Upper Limb Service. You will assess and treat children with traumatic and congenital hand conditions and support rehabilitation to maximise daily activity participation.

The role involves multidisciplinary collaboration, service development and education activities to maintain high-quality, child-centered care.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in advanced hand therapy assessment and treatment.
• Ability to manage a specialist caseload of paediatric hand and upper limb conditions.
• Proven collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

Aufgaben

• Manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with hand and upper limb conditions.
• Deliver advanced occupational therapy assessment, treatment and rehabilitation programmes; provide specialist hand therapy interventions including splinting, orthotic management and functional rehabilitation.
• Work collaboratively with consultant surgeons, therapists, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Support children, young people and families to achieve meaningful functional goals and maximise participation in daily activities.
• Contribute to service development, audit, quality improvement and education activities.

Kenntnisse

Specialist hand therapy

Caseload management

Splinting

Jobbeschreibung

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist to join the Regional Paediatric Hands and Upper Limb Service as a Band 7 Advanced Occupational Therapist. The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for children and young people with traumatic hand injuries, congenital hand differences and other complex upper limb conditions.

• Manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with hand and upper limb conditions.
• Deliver advanced occupational therapy assessment, treatment and rehabilitation programmes.Provide specialist hand therapy interventions, including splinting, orthotic management and functional rehabilitation.
• Work collaboratively with consultant surgeons, therapists, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Support children, young people and families to achieve meaningful functional goals and maximise participation in daily activities.
• Contribute to service development, audit, quality improvement and education activities.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centered care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amberley Prince Job title: Interim Head of Occupational Therapy Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0121 333 8978

Sian Phillips - Interim Head of Occupational Therapy - 07385223258 - [e-mail]