Band 7 Highly Specialist Hand Therapist

NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Band 7 Highly Specialist Hand Therapist to join their dynamic Multi-disciplinary Hand Therapy department. The successful candidate will provide clinical expertise, lead service development, and work closely with a diverse team of specialists. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to enhance patient care and contribute to continuous service improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven clinical experience in the relevant field during band 6 rotations and a minimum of 3 years post-graduate training.
• Hand Therapy Experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within Hand Therapy.
• Lead service development and review for hand therapy out-patients.

Skills

Leadership

Service Development

Education

Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy

Appropriate post graduate study in specific specialist field

Working towards a level 7 qualification

Job description

Go back Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 7 Highly Specialist Hand Therapist

The closing date is 20 May 2025

Roles: 1 Permanent / 1 Fixed Term (1 Year Maternity Cover)

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

There will be close working with our orthopaedics consultants, hand surgeon plastic surgeons, rheumatologist consultant and colleagues within MDT clinics and on service development projects within the team. Operate within the Hand Therapy departments at Queen Hospital and King George Hospital.You will lead service development and review, ensuring the service is able to provide safe, high quality, evidence based, and holistic management of hand therapy patients.

Engage in secondary care clinics and the Virtual Fracture Clinic, working with the wider MDT. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop lead service reviews, ensuring the continuous improvement of service delivery.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within Hand Therapy. To facilitate and maximise patient potential within service boundaries

To give highly specialist guidance and advice to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and General Practitioners (GP's) on relevant matters as necessary.

Provide leadership for the therapy team, in conjunction with the Clinical Lead, in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the service provided to hand therapy out-patients on a day to day basis

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926 Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• Appropriate post graduate study in specific specialist field
• Working towards a level 7 qualification

Skills/ Abilities

• Ability to demonstrate leadership and supervisory skills
• Evidence of developing service provision

Experience/ Knowledge

• Proven clinical experience in the relevant field during band 6 rotations and a minimum of 3 years post-graduate training
• Hand Therapy Experience
• To have significant clinical experience during band 6 and junior rotations or equivalent Training of therapy students on placements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£51,883 to £58,544 a yearper annum inclusive