Job Description
Advance Level Hand Therapist
Chichester Hospital | Physiotherapy
Permanent | Part-Time (22.5 Hours)
£52,500.00 GBP Annual (Prorated: £31,500.00) DOE
At Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members, and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, warmth, and drive to make a difference are vital. Join our journey. It starts with you.
As a Hand Therapist at Chichester Hospital, you will manage a complex clinical caseload of hand therapy patients referred from Consultants, GPs, PMIs, or self-referrals, as well as post-operative patients. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, AHPs, and consultants, playing a key role in helping our patients recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to. You will liaise closely with our orthopaedic hand surgeons, running clinics alongside them.
You will be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and integrity along with excellent communication skills and participate and provide support to the national Nuffield Health Hand Therapy network with regular supervision sessions.
As an Advanced Hand Therapist, you will:
* Deliver high-quality, effective clinical care.
* Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, encouraging behaviour that is enterprising, passionate, independent, and caring.
* Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence-based, safe, effective, caring, well-led, and responsive to our patients' needs.
* Ensure ongoing monitoring of the standard of treatment provided.
* Be compliant with all professional, clinical, and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audits and other quality assurance processes.
To succeed as our Advanced Hand Therapist, you will:
* Have a BSc in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, or equivalent and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
* Demonstrate evidence of further professional hand therapy-specific training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.
* Have a minimum of 5 years of experience working in the field of hand therapy, with experience of leading a service desirable.
* Be able to demonstrate excellent hand therapy and splinting skills.
* Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with the general public and other healthcare professionals.
* Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisational skills.
* Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.
Supporting your growth.
We’re committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, you’ll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development.
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy, and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. With private healthcare, free gym membership for yourself and discounted for family, a cycle to work scheme, online GP, and emotional wellbeing support, we take care of what’s important to you.
Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital
Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30-bedded, CQC 'outstanding' rated hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking.
We care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, and more.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early.
It starts with you.
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