Senior Hand Physiotherapist - Band 6

Job overview

Band 6 Senior Hand Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 Physiotherapist to work in the Regional Plastic Surgery and Specialist Hand Physiotherapy team at North Bristol NHS Trust. The Brunel Bristol Hand & Upper Limb Centre provides high quality care in a highly specialised clinical area for the Southwest of England. We are a friendly team committed to providing outstanding patient experience working closely alongside our surgical colleagues.

We are looking for a Senior Physiotherapist with a Musculoskeletal or Plastic Surgery background to join the team.

We are looking for a Senior Physiotherapist with a Musculoskeletal or Plastic Surgery background to join the team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a senior member of the specialist hand and upper limb physiotherapy team with responsibility for a mixed caseload of primarily hand trauma patients including the management of complex patients requiring daily treatment. The position requires caseload management & organisation duties within the team on a day-to-day basis.  The post-holder routinely covers other Senior Staff during their regular periods of absence.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Assess and treat referrals from all sources (GP, A&E, Pain and Hand and upper limb clinics, whether acute or chronic and often with complex hand and upper limb dysfunction)

• Assess patients following complex hand trauma, diagnose, set realistic goals for rehabilitation & healing, devise appropriate patient specific treatment programmes, monitor progress and determine the final rehabilitated outcome

• Assess patients using specialist physiotherapy methods based upon the Biopsychosocial model, devise appropriate treatment plans, regularly re-assess and monitor progress

• Maintain a high standard of clinical practice and self-directed CPD

• Continually evaluate physiotherapy standards of practice; participate in audit and to help ensure patient management is effective and best practice

• Provide in service training for Physiotherapy colleagues, ensure skills and knowledge is shared

• Maintain full and effective clinical records and communications within departmental policy

• Supervise, support, develop and coach staff under post-holder's supervision to ensure they meet the high clinical standards, skills and dexterity required of them

• Gather, analyse and evaluate information to identify relevant problems with patients, carers and colleagues

• Teach patients how to manage their condition, engage in home treatment programmes to and effectively limit their activities to protect their condition.

• Monitor and manage engagement or non-engagement, communicate patients' progress and monitor the receipt of such communication to Consultants GPs and other parties clearly