Specialist Physiotherapist in Hand therapy

Role: Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist in Hand Therapy

Location: London

Benefits:

* Access to Care4Carers - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
* First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
* Competitive pay rates
* A dedicated placement officer
* Hundreds of new shifts available every day
* Long term jobs and short shifts available
* Lucrative referral scheme
* 24/7/365 service, we're available when you need us

Your role will see you working in various settings, from hospitals to community clinics providing life-changing treatment, support, and care for patients of all ages who have difficulties with communication.

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team of Therapists, Doctors, Nurses and Psychologists to achieve the very best outcomes for patients.

In your role as a Speech and Language Therapist, you will rely on your superior communication skills to motivate and reassure people of all ages. Well-developed problem solving, leadership and organisational skills will ensure you can thrive in this role.

Job Summary

The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member. They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team and more junior staff and coordinate and deliver high quality care. They will be a role model for expert clinical care, and lead on specific projects / service developments and management functions as delegated by the Band 7 therapists or Clinical Lead therapists. They will role model the identified Trust values at all times.

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner in providing hand therapy assessment, treatment and management to their own designated caseload of adult and paediatric patients and to maintain up to date therapy records. They will use evidence based principles and current best practise to assess, plan, implement and evaluate hand therapy interventions.

The post holder will provide supervision, teaching and support to more junior staff, therapy assistants and students on placement. They will participate in CPD and other developmental activities.

The service is currently reviewing the working pattern for therapy posts to include cross site working with West Middlesex University Hospital.

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

* Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject such as (Biology, Psychology or Linguistics)
* At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
* 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
* You will need to pass an enhanced background check.