Senior Hand Therapist - Fixed Term 12 months
Band 6 Senior Hand Therapist - Fixed Term 12 months
CQC RATING: GOOD
Are you a dynamic individual with hand therapy experience? Are you passionate about patient-centred care and do you value working in a positive team environment focused on peer support and development?
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD rated hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a highly skilled, forward-thinking, dynamic individual as a Band 6 Hand Therapist.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the efficient, effective and safe therapeutic management of patients within RBFT.
2. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care, ensuring a high standard of clinical practice for patients under your management and supporting more junior staff to do likewise.
3. To receive referrals and independently assess and treat own caseload of patients, ensuring evaluation and progression of treatment programmes to a high standard, in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines, protocols and pathways where they exist.
4. To have clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients, prioritising that work efficiently taking into account clinical and service priorities, using clinical knowledge to underpin decisions.
5. To manage clinical risk within own clinical caseload and identify and report any risks witnessed.
6. To formulate and deliver specialist individual therapy treatment programmes based on clinical knowledge of current practice, evidence-based practice, and treatment options, using clinical assessment and reasoning skills.
7. To have knowledge of a range of treatment skills relevant to the management of patients' conditions, including transfer assessments, function, and provision of advice, education, and support. To provide therapy to patients individually or as a group.
About us
We are one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country, serving a population of more than 500,000 people, and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play, providing excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be, and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Job responsibilities
Please contact Jessica Riddy, Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner, at Jessica.Riddy@royalberkshire.nhs.uk if you would like further information or to arrange an informal visit.
Please note, this job will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.
Person Specification
1. NHS Experience
2. 2 years of Hand Therapy Experience
3. Understanding of current evidence base
4. BAHT L1
Interview
1. Specialist Knowledge of Current Evidence
2. Hand Therapy Experience of 2 years
3. Hand Therapy Post Grad Course
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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