Specialist Occupational Therapist

St George's University Hospitals; Tooting; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a hand therapy clinician to provide specialised rehabilitation within the hand therapy service, addressing trauma and routine hand conditions.

The post involves assessment, splint fabrication, exercise prescription, scar and oedema management, and functional rehabilitation, with involvement in teaching and supervision of students and junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Carry a clinical caseload including trauma and routine hand conditions
• Perform splint fabrication and exercise prescription
• Manage scar and oedema, and support functional rehabilitation
• Involve in teaching and learning of new and rotating staff
• Supervise students and participate in clinical audits and service development

Job description

This role in hand therapy provides specialised rehabilitation services within the clinical specialty of hand therapy, managing a wide variety of clinical presentations including hand trauma and chronic/routine hand conditions. With this role clinicians are involved in the assessment and treatment of hand therapy patients including splint fabrication, exercise prescription, scar/oedema management and functional rehabilitation.

This role is also involved in clinical teaching and learning of new and rotational staff within the team, and the role also contributes to regular teaching and learning with hand therapy.

There are opportunities for supervision of students and involvement in clinical audit and service development projects., The caseload consists primarily of acute hand trauma, referred via the Plastic Surgery and Trauma and Orthopaedics Departments. The team also accepts referrals for patients from Rheumatology and local GPs. The team is also the specialist therapy team for the management of both trauma and congenital paediatric hand conditions.

You will be involved in carrying a clinical caseload consisting of both trauma and routine conditions. This role may also involve working within the paediatric hand therapy service seeing acute injuries and congenital conditions.

Opportunities for supervision, teaching, research and service development are available and encouraged as part of this role and will be supported where possible.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these. If you have the motivation, enthusiasm and desire to develop your clinical, leadership and managerial skills plus the ability to work well and flexibly within a team, we welcome your application for this post.

The hand therapy team is part of a large outpatient therapies department based within a Southwest London Teaching Hospital. St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a local, culturally diverse community in South London, and provides specialist services across a large geographical area.

The successful post holder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of:A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.