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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 surgeon plastic surgeons, rheumatologist consultant 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.
Working for our organisation
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&Es 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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
* Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
* Appropriate post graduate study in specific specialist field
* Working towards a level 7 qualification
Skills/ Abilities
* Ability to demonstrate leadership and supervisory skills
* Evidence of developing service provision
Experience/ Knowledge
* Proven clinical experience in the relevant field during band 6 rotations and a minimum of 3 years post-graduate training
* To have significant clinical experience during band 6 and junior rotations or equivalent Training of therapy students on placements
Ensuring people settle in and feel part of our Trust straight away is one of our top priorities. We hold two corporate welcome events each month and, if successful, you will start on one of these days so we can provide you with a seamless and welcoming introduction to our Trust.
We believe that providing the highest quality of care, is about having the best people, inspired and supported by the best leaders, and backed by the best training and career development opportunities. Our vision is to provide outstanding healthcare to our community, delivered with pride. It is driven by our PRIDE values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust is committed to Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults is central to the care provided by our Trust and the post holder must be aware of their responsibilities and work in line with our Trust’s Safeguarding Adult and Children Procedures.
We are an equal opportunity employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community and welcomes applications from people wishing to job-share, either with or without a partner. Applicants who consider themselves to have a disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) will be shortlisted for interview if they meet the essential criteria.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
There’s never been a better time to join the team. Apply online now.
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