Band 7 Highly Specialist Hand Therapist

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Highly Specialist Hand Therapist to join their Multi-disciplinary Hand Therapy department. The role involves providing clinical expertise, leading service development, and collaborating with a variety of healthcare professionals to ensure high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in hand therapy required.
• Ability to lead service reviews and improvements.
• Engagement in multidisciplinary team projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and treatment to hand therapy patients.
• Lead therapy team in service delivery and evaluation.
• Collaborate with orthopaedic and rheumatology consultants.

Skills

Clinical expertise in hand therapy

Leadership

Collaboration with MDT

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy

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Job Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work within our growing Multi-disciplinary Hand Therapy department at BHRUT. You will provide clinical expertise for a caseload of hand therapy patients from multiple referral routes.

There will be close collaboration with orthopaedics consultants, hand surgeon plastic surgeons, rheumatology consultants, and colleagues within MDT clinics and service development projects. You will operate within the Hand Therapy departments at Queen Hospital and King George Hospital. The role involves leading service development and review to ensure high-quality, evidence-based, holistic management of hand therapy patients. Engagement in secondary care clinics and the Virtual Fracture Clinic, working with the wider MDT, is also expected. The successful candidate will have opportunities to develop lead service reviews and ensure continuous service improvement.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide specialist assessment, treatment, and advice to patients within Hand Therapy.
2. Facilitate and maximize patient potential within service boundaries.
3. Offer highly specialist guidance and advice to MDT members and GPs.
4. Lead the therapy team in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the service provided to hand therapy out-patients.

About Us

We are an organization committed to continuous improvement. Recognized as the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24, we are no longer in special measures. Our leadership has been recognized as top in the sector. Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, and we are proud to be a London Living Wage employer. Our main sites are King George Hospital and Queen's Hospital, with state-of-the-art facilities and upcoming digital record systems to enhance patient care.