Job Summary
Roles: 1 Permanent / 1 Fixed Term (1 Year Maternity Cover)
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 provide clinical expertise for a caseload of hand therapy patients from multiple referral routes.
There will be close working with our orthopaedics consultants, hand surgeons, plastic surgeons, rheumatologist consultants, 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.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To provide specialist assessment, treatment, and advice to patients within Hand Therapy.
2. To facilitate and maximise patient potential within service boundaries.
3. 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.
4. 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.
About Us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&E in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state-of-the-art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
Date Posted
05 February 2025
Pay Scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£51,883 to £58,544 a year per annum inclusive
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time
Reference Number
162-6539-AV-B
Job Locations
Queen's Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG
Job 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.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
* Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
* Appropriate post-graduate study in specific specialist field
Desirable
* Working towards a level 7 qualification
Skills/Abilities
Essential
* Ability to demonstrate leadership and supervisory skills
Desirable
* Evidence of developing service provision
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
* Proven clinical experience in the relevant field during band 6 rotations and a minimum of 3 years post-graduate training
Desirable
* To have significant clinical experience during band 6 and junior rotations or equivalent Training of therapy students on placements
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Queen's Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG
Employer's Website: BHRUT Website
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