We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated hand therapist to join our service as our current team member is relocating overseas. You will support this innovative team with excellent clinical skills that deliver high quality person-centred care and support the service leads to deliver department objectives and service development.
You will work as part of a medium-size adult hand therapy department that includes clinical hand therapists and rotational staff from bands 5-8, and clinical academic hand therapists from Queen Mary University of London. The service covers primary and secondary care referrals.
Your main role will be providing care for patients referred through secondary care trauma pathways, supporting the development of junior staff, participating in teaching programmes and taking part in service development and line management of junior staff.
We have a well-established in-service training programme, but also encourage post-graduate courses and hand therapy accreditation for all static hand therapists within the team. Our service has close links with the Centre for Bone and Joint Health at QMUL, with staff often collaborating on research and service development.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality and specialist occupational therapy interventions to a wide variety of outpatients including the advanced assessment and treatment of hand trauma (Orthopaedics and Plastics), Rheumatology and Tower Hamlets GP referred patients, provision of individual and group education and treatment, provision of assistive devices (splints) and equipment.
To utilise specialist skills to work without direct supervision with patients who vary greatly in age, communication ability, language, functional ability, cultural and social background.
To work in a highly diverse, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and socio-economically varied environment and gain further skills in outpatient hand therapy. Ensure treatment is of the highest standards regardless of cultural or language differences and support the staff you supervise in doing likewise.
Experience
- Clinical experience in a range of specialties relevant to the rotation, with mandatory rotation experience in musculoskeletal upper limb caseloads.
- Knowledge of a broad range of clinical conditions
- Demonstrated completion of KSF full-outline requirements for Band 5 staff
- Equipment provision and assessment
- Working within a multidisciplinary and/or occupational therapy team
- Contributing to professional development and clinical education of more junior staff, students and assistants
- Experience of working with a musculoskeletal upper limb caseload.
- Experience in the prescription and fabrication of splints.
- Involvement in audit, research and understanding of quality issues
- Knowledge of local community services and agencies (i.e. intermediate care, day hospital)
- Experience working in an integrated occupational therapy service
- Superficial burns management
Qualifications
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Occupational Therapy HCPC Registration
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent post graduate courses/training relevant to rotational clinical specialties
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.
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