Highly Specialist Hand Occupational/ Physio Therapist

Alder Hey Children's Nhs Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A pediatric healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join the Acute Integrated Therapy Team. The role involves managing a complex caseload that includes hand trauma and congenital conditions, ensuring high-quality therapy and collaboration with families. Candidates should possess a relevant degree and have a strong understanding of child-centered approaches. You will work autonomously while delivering interventions and assessments. This position is integral to enhancing the quality of care provided to young patients.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex pediatric caseloads.
• Understanding of a wide range of hand conditions.
• Knowledge of therapy management principles.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and coordinate high-quality therapy for children.
• Organize caseloads based on clinical priorities.
• Assess and formulate intervention plans for complex patients.

Skills

Scar management

Clinical reasoning

Autonomous practice

Child-centered therapy

Splinting

Assessment and diagnosis

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy

Job description

Overview

We are delighted to offer this opportunity for an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to work within the Acute Integrated Therapy Team. The successful candidate will work within our Hand Therapy service, managing a caseload of hand trauma/plastics/congenital conditions.

To be a team member of Alder Hey's Paediatric Therapy team and as such, carry a complex caseload across Plastics and support Burns patients requiring hand therapy, working in partnership with parents, carers education and other service providers to ensure a child centred approach to therapy.

Responsibilities

• To have responsibility for the delivery and co-ordination of high-quality Therapy to children with a range of conditions and presentations including tendon repairs, nerve injuries, fractures, burns, congenital abnormalities, brachial plexus injuries, and trauma conditions.
• Utilise a high level of knowledge developed through experience of scar management mobilisation, positioning, and splinting, treating a wide range of hand conditions and traumas.
• To organise this caseload effectively and efficiently regarding clinical priorities, time, and staffing levels.
• To act as a lead therapist to assess, diagnose/interpret and manage own specialist caseload of complex patients as an autonomous practitioner in accordance with the RCOT code of conduct and HCPC standards.
• To work without direct supervision, formulating intervention plans based on advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of caseload.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care to maximise function and independence.
• To carry out assessment of patients as an autonomous practitioner, including those with highly complex presentations, where expert opinion may differ, using clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence based practice and expertise to determine appropriate care plans utilising highly specialist treatment skills and a wide range of treatment options.
• To contribute to accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive management plans, guided by clearly defined principles or occupational policies.
• To hold an independent, complex, and highly specialist caseload, being able to highly demonstrate specialist assessment, diagnostic, treatment, and management plans with goals based on advanced clinical reasoning skills.

About Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a major teaching hospital with 270 beds. It is a supra-regional centre for cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and Paediatric major trauma. Alder Hey is one of Europe's busiest children's hospitals and we care for over 270,000 young people and their families every year.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is located in the vibrant city of Liverpool in the North West of England.