Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-NN-7486146-AHP-Y
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialised OT/Physiotherapist - Hand Therapy
Band 7
Job overview
This post provides highly specialised occupational therapy rehabilitation in the clinical specialty of hand therapy, managing a wide variety of clinical presentations (hand trauma and routine conditions). This role is responsible for their own clinical workload within an outpatient setting and they are accountable for their own professional actions.
The post holder is also responsible for the supervision and line management of Band 6 staff in the team and is involved with operational/day to day management within the hand therapy team. This role is also involved in clinical teaching and learning of new and rotational staff within the team, and the role also contributes to regular teaching and learning with hand therapy.
Main duties of the job
Clinical:
This post delivers highly specialised occupational therapy services as a substantive role in hand therapy. This includes the assessment and treatment of patients with traumatic hand condition/injuries and treatment/management for patients with chronic hand and wrist conditions.
The position is highly specialised due to the clinical complexity of patients managed within the service. A level of expertise and knowledge is required with regards to specific hand therapy assessments and interventions including hand, wrist and elbow splinting, exercise prescription, scar and oedema management and functional rehabilitation.
Leadership/workforce management:
This post is highly specialised as it provides senior support to consultant and therapy led post operative clinics, providing clinical leadership and support.
The post holder is also involved in clinical audit and service development projects and initiatives.
This level of expertise and input that this role provides reduces the ongoing risk for further surgery following acute hand trauma and helps to optimise a level of clinical capacity in an outpatient therapy setting.
Working for our organisation
This post is highly specialised due to its requirement to provide operational and clinical support to the assessment and management of patients within the hand therapy service. As part of this role, the post holder also provides teaching, training and clinical supervision to Band 6 staff within team in the area of hand and upper limb rehabilitation.
The post provides operational support to the overall day to day running of the hand therapy service including management annual leave, sickness, appraisals and staff performance, and deputises for the 8A role when they are not available.
The post holder is also involved in clinical audit and service development within the team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- • Diploma/Degree in Occupational Therapy
- • HCPC Registration
- • CPD including evidence of reflective practice and clinical experience gained
- • BAHT Level 1 Accreditation
Desirable criteria
- • Working towards BAHT accreditation
- • Fieldwork Educators Course
Other
Essential criteria
- • Able to alter their working patterns to include extended hours, unsociable hours and weekend working. This may be via additional hours or a shift pattern
Desirable criteria
- • BAHT Member
- • RCOT Member
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Minimum of 5 years post registration experience, at least 2 years of which must be in Hand Therapy
- • Comprehensive splinting experience
- • Experience of standardised assessments relevant to hand therapy
- • Experience and proficiency with treatment modalities used in hand therapy
- • Clinical teaching of OT’s/PT’s and MDT in local setting
- • Experience of supervising / appraising therapy staff and students
- • Participation in audit
- • Working as part of an MDT within a clinical environment
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in assessment and treatment of paediatric patients
- • Experience with exercise programmes / joint mobilisations
- • Experience of wound management
- • Participation in clinical research
- • Recruitment and selection experience
- • Team leadership experience
- • Experience in therapies service development including clinical services
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Good clinical reasoning skills
- • Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- • Ability to document legible and accurate notes in English using the SOAP note writing system
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the English language
- • Experience of standardised assessments relevant to hand therapy
- • Proficiency with treatment modalities used in hand therapy
- • Group work skills
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Team leadership skills
- • Experience of operational and staff management
- • Good presentation skills
- • Competent IT skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Clear demonstrable understanding of the therapies process
- • Clear understanding of Evidence Based Practice.
- • Working knowledge of hand assessments
- • Working knowledge of hand anatomy
- • Working knowledge and understanding of hand therapy protocols/treatment guidelines
- • Knowledge of current OT/PT and Government initiatives.
- • Understand the legal responsibilities of the working as a healthcare professional
- • Have an understanding of Clinical Governance and implications for allied health services including experience of quality issues and audit
- • Able to work within Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the needs of the patients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Megan Blakeway
- Job title
- Principal Occupational Therapist/ACP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 725 1038
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