Senior Hand Therapist - Band 7

Integrated Care System; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Stevenage seeks a skilled Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist to join their Hand Therapy team. The role involves advanced patient assessments, collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, and providing high standards of care for hand therapy patients. Ideal candidates must be HCPC registered and hold a relevant degree. The position offers a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 per annum, pro rata.

Qualifications

• HCPC Registered Practitioner.
• BSc in Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Evidence of advanced clinical continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously to provide advanced assessment, diagnostics, treatments, and management of patients.
• Provide advanced experience and knowledge within the hand therapy and plastics cohort.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to ensure excellent standards of care.

Job description

Hertfordshire Musculoskeletal Service is currently looking for a skilled and innovative highly specialised Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join our friendly and experienced Hand Therapy team.

This is an exciting opportunity to utilise your specialist expertise and further develop clinical and leadership skills. We have a commitment to clinical quality and ensure regular supervision and CPD opportunities.You will be working within the Hand Therapy team which form part of the integrated community MSK Services in the trust working alongside MSK Physiotherapy , the ACTIVATE for CFS and Persistent Pain team and the MSK Clinical , Assessment and Treatment Service (MSKCATS)The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills , take a lead role in clinical delivery and provide a key focus for Hand Therapy clinical expertise.

Main duties of the job

The Hand Therapy team work within a busy Plastics Unit in East and North Hertfordshire, carrying a varied hands caseload. They receive referrals from Plastics, Orthopaedics and GP's, to provide a Hands and Plastics Service to elective, trauma and MSK hands patients.

Working with the Hand Therapy team lead you will provide advanced clinical expertise across the service area, and as part of the multidisciplinary healthcare team promote excellent standards of care to Hand Therapy patients.

About us

• A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
• You'll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
• We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
• Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
• We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds
• We don't want you to miss out so we'd like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now
• You've made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we're looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

Job responsibilities

Please see full job description for responsibilities of this role which include:

• To work autonomously to provide a comprehensive advanced assessment, diagnostic, treatments and management of patients with complex needs within the specialist hand therapy and plasticscohort and maintain appropriate treatment plans, records, and data collection.
• To provide advanced experience, knowledge within the hand therapy and plastics cohort within specialist musculoskeletal rehabilitation and must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• To provide advanced clinical expertise across the service area, participating in the development of professional competences and participation in professional appraisal systems.

To be an expert resource for patients and to promote and facilitate self-management principles in appropriate patients

To work in collaboration with all members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team to promote excellent standards of care to patients in line with any local or National principles/guidelines

To deliver evidenced based advanced education programmes to professionals, patients and their carers for Hand Therapy across Hertfordshire as required by encouraging independence and self-management.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• HCPC Registered Practitioner
• BSc in Physiotherapy/ Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• Evidence of advanced clinical continuing professional development
• Specific post graduate study in Hand therapy to Masters level or equivalent

Knowledge and Experience

• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches for the management of patients within this specialist clinical area including exercise prescription, activity analysis , functional rehabilitation, splinting and scar management
• Evidence of advanced clinical reasoning and the management of complex hand rehabilitation
• High level of knowledge and understanding of NHS policy
• Intellectual flexibility to be able to work between strategic and operational priorities
• Experience of delivering a range of Hand Rehabilitation Programmes
• Evidence of active involvement in service development & contribution to change within the workplace
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written, including the ability to liaise and negotiate
• Able to analyse and interpret complex data

Other requirements

• Current driving license and use of car for work purposes, able to travel within HCT area

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.

Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum, pro rata