Job summary
We are looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist or physiotherapist to work within our growing Multi-disciplinary Hand Therapy department at Bart's Health NHS Trust. You will be based at the Royal London Hospital, providing clinical expertise for a caseload of hand therapy patients from multiple referral routes. There will be close working with our plastic surgery and orthopaedic colleagues within MDT clinics and on service development projects within the team, and with Rheumatology. The role involves making hand therapy provision to patients on the day of their surgery to support the Day Zero Hand Therapy Pathway.
You will be joining a large and diverse MSK team that spans across the whole MSK pathway. This comprises Secondary care consultants, nurse practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioners.
You will be working within the Royal London Hospital Hand Therapy department. 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. You will also be expected to work in secondary care clinics, with the support of the wider MDT.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop hand therapy clinical, leadership, research and educational skills.
Main duties of the job
To provide client centered occupational therapy or physiotherapy for clients referred to the Hand Therapy Service. The service accepts referrals for clients who have hand or upper limb dysfunction due to injury or illness, particularly in the areas of trauma, plastic and orthopaedics and acquired conditions rheumatology and GP referrals, and some neurology. This highly specialised service is provided to clients mainly in a hospital setting but may have a community focus. The service adopts a holistic approach offering assessment and treatment to reduce disability and the impact of the disability arising from physical illness and injury. The service also provides advice and education, precautionary measures and highly specialist treatments e.g. splinting. This is done in accordance with the priorities of the client and, where applicable, his/her carer. The post holder also has the opportunity to provide a service to other clients referred direct from the community.
About us
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Appropriate Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy post graduate clinical experience at Band 6 level or above including at least 18 month's recent experience in Hand Therapy.
- Experience in supervision of junior staff, students and assistants.
Desirable
- Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapy or Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- BAHT Membership
- Supervision Training
- Fieldwork educators training
- Post graduate formal qualification relevant to clinical specialty
- Leadership training
- Involvement in relevant COT special interest group
- QI/ change management experience/ training
Skills
Essential
- Ability to offer constructive suggestions for service improvement
- Effectively carries out tasks related to evaluating services.
- Ability to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities
- Able to recognise own limits and work within those limits of competence
- Ability to treat everyone with whom s/he comes into contact with dignity and respect
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities
- Knowledge of a range of clinical conditions, particularly in relating to Hand Therapy assessment and treatment in an acute hospital.
- Can show a non-judgemental approach to patient care
- Ability to record and report back accurately and fully on patient assessments undertaken and risks identified
- Ability to assess for/review medical devices and other rehabilitative equipment for patients, carers and other. This includes safe handling, fitting and demonstration.
- Ability to evaluate patient progress, reassess and provide modified treatment programmes as required through the monitoring of clients medical and rehabilitation needs.
- Ability to identify patients deteriorating function and take appropriate action
- Ability to carry out essential and appropriate occupational therapy interventions and procedures
- Ability to prescribe and fabricate thermoplastic splint
- Ability to assess, advise and educate clients and carers about safe manual handling techniques (including use of equipment and adaptations)
Desirable
- Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy
- Understanding and rising to the challenges in service improvement
- Ability to lead the hand therapy team in service improvement
- Ability to monitor the quality of own and others work
- Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
- Experience of Equal Opportunity policies and procedures
- Ability to identify and take action when own or other's undermines equality and diversity
- Knowledge of local community services and agencies (ie intermediate care, reablement)
- Ability to provide formal teaching development to staff/colleagues.
- Ability to assess the work of the team, provide clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational therapy or Physiotherapy
- HPC registration
- Fulfils KSF outline for Occupational Therapist (Band 6)
- Appropriate post graduate clinical experience including one year's recent experience in an appropriate specialty
- Experience of supervision junior staff, students and assistants
- Clinical experience in the NHS or similar health service.
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at post graduate course/training relevant to clinical specialty
Desirable
- CSP membership (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy) or
- RCOT (Royal College of Occupational Therapy) Membership
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Appropriate Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy post graduate clinical experience at Band 6 level or above including at least 18 month's recent experience in Hand Therapy.
- Experience in supervision of junior staff, students and assistants.
Desirable
- Member of the British Association of Occupational Therapy or Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- BAHT Membership
- Supervision Training
- Fieldwork educators training
- Post graduate formal qualification relevant to clinical specialty
- Leadership training
- Involvement in relevant COT special interest group
- QI/ change management experience/ training
Skills
Essential
- Ability to offer constructive suggestions for service improvement
- Effectively carries out tasks related to evaluating services.
- Ability to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities
- Able to recognise own limits and work within those limits of competence
- Ability to treat everyone with whom s/he comes into contact with dignity and respect
- Ability to work autonomously, acting decisively on behalf of self and others, setting own priorities
- Knowledge of a range of clinical conditions, particularly in relating to Hand Therapy assessment and treatment in an acute hospital.
- Can show a non-judgemental approach to patient care
- Ability to record and report back accurately and fully on patient assessments undertaken and risks identified
- Ability to assess for/review medical devices and other rehabilitative equipment for patients, carers and other. This includes safe handling, fitting and demonstration.
- Ability to evaluate patient progress, reassess and provide modified treatment programmes as required through the monitoring of clients medical and rehabilitation needs.
- Ability to identify patients deteriorating function and take appropriate action
- Ability to carry out essential and appropriate occupational therapy interventions and procedures
- Ability to prescribe and fabricate thermoplastic splint
- Ability to assess, advise and educate clients and carers about safe manual handling techniques (including use of equipment and adaptations)
Desirable
- Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy
- Understanding and rising to the challenges in service improvement
- Ability to lead the hand therapy team in service improvement
- Ability to monitor the quality of own and others work
- Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
- Experience of Equal Opportunity policies and procedures
- Ability to identify and take action when own or other's undermines equality and diversity
- Knowledge of local community services and agencies (ie intermediate care, reablement)
- Ability to provide formal teaching development to staff/colleagues.
- Ability to assess the work of the team, provide clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational therapy or Physiotherapy
- HPC registration
- Fulfils KSF outline for Occupational Therapist (Band 6)
- Appropriate post graduate clinical experience including one year's recent experience in an appropriate specialty
- Experience of supervision junior staff, students and assistants
- Clinical experience in the NHS or similar health service.
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at post graduate course/training relevant to clinical specialty
Desirable
- CSP membership (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy) or
- RCOT (Royal College of Occupational Therapy) Membership
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
