Band 7 Highly Specialist Hand Therapist

Job overview

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.

Interviews will take place on 11th November 2024 at Queens Hospital

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

Detailed job description and main 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.