Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Hand Therapist (either Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist) to join the Hand Therapy Team in the East Lancashire, based primarily at the Royal Blackburn site with a requirement to travel to Burnley General Hospital for Clinics. You will be joining a department which is highly valued and respected regionally, throughout the Trust, and within the wider therapy services.
We seek an individual who is autonomous, forward thinking, and enthusiastic. The successful applicant must be able to undertake assessment of patients referred into the department with a diverse range of hands conditions. In addition, you will be able to demonstrate excellent communication and documentation skills plus prioritisation and delegation abilities. The service is committed to offering student placements.
This position offers an important opportunity and challenging career move for you to advance your clinical skills. Your role will include delivering education and assisting with quality improvement and research. We pride ourselves in supporting our team through education, training, and development. A band 6 to 7 development post would be considered however experience in Hand Therapy is required.
Main duties of the job
The Hand Therapy Service receives referrals directly from a variety of sources including orthopaedic and fracture clinics in regard to the assessment and rehabilitation of hand/wrist injuries and disorders. Additionally, the Hand Therapy Service takes referrals for the provision of bespoke splinting and functional fracture braces only as part of multidisciplinary care.
Hand therapy specialist Occupational Therapists (OT) and Physiotherapists (PT) are autonomous independent practitioners who undertake biopsychosocial assessment in relation to injuries or disorders that affect the functioning of the hand. Therapy interventions and recommendations are provided on the basis of that assessment in order to maximise hand function in regard to the individual's occupational priorities and independent living. Where prior levels of functioning cannot be achieved due to chronic dysfunction and/or deformity a hand specialist OT/PT will provide appropriate intervention, education and recommendation to support the process of acceptance and adaptation leading to agreed and acceptable levels of physical, psychological and social functioning. The Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist remains accountable for the intervention provided and its outcome.
About us
Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.
Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
Working within the multidisciplinary team for the Hand Therapy providing a high level of clinical expertise with regard to highly specialist assessment skills and interactions within a defined patient group.
Provide clinical leadership and intervention to a designated service area/pathway in the delivery of a highly effective, safe and personal service, ensuring the needs of individual patients/carers as described by agreed goals/outcome measures and within defined clinical pathways.
An active member of the leadership structure, the postholder will contribute toward the strategic operational and clinical development of the service.
Provide teaching and highly specialist support in the management of complex conditions, educating other healthcare professionals and wider stakeholders.
The service operating hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm.
MAIN DUTIES
- To provide clinical leadership and highly specialised expertise to a defined patient group to ensure that pathways, standards, competencies, training and monitoring are in place for the designated team, using agreed clinical pathways.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments at a highly specialist level, set patient centred goals, create evidence-based treatment plans, monitor, and evaluate a designated caseload of patients.
- Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical factors including physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, and cultural aspects of the patients life. To provide advice and intervention to facilitate an optimum level of function.
- Formulate goals in partnership with the patient, clearly communicating your clinical reasoning to justify your recommendations and utilising most appropriate treatment / intervention for the patients needs.
- Responsible for the effective management of a complex caseload individually and within team, requiring allocation and reallocation of work on a daily basis to meet changing clinical priorities and adherence to quality and performance measures.
- Contribute to the wider multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based expertise within your specialist area.
- Contribute to the creation and review of procedures, standards and guidance relating to clinical practice and monitor effectiveness.
- Liaise with peers and specialist interest groups both regionally and nationally, to collaborate, share learning and develop shared resources to achieve standardised, best practice within your clinical area.
- Ensure the service provided by yourself and the team is safe, personal and effective. Achieving compliance to governance standards through monitoring, performance, incident reporting, risk management, outcome measures, patient experience, compliments and complaints.
- Assess capacity of patients in order to gain valid informed consent for intervention and work within organisational policy with patients who lack capacity.
- Initiate and organise reviews involving multiagency partners, taking the role of key worker, coordinator where required.
COMMUNICATION
- Communicate with professionals, patients and families/carers in a professional manner and appropriate to the individual using a range of mediums and techniques including letters, reports, groups, verbal, emails and onward referral.
- Act as an advocate on behalf of patients.
- Deal with challenging situations using conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Advise and support the team in adapting communication skills to meet individual patients needs.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Ensure compliance with mandatory training for yourself.
- Take responsibility for own professional development and the development of the team using a training needs analysis and competency framework across a variety of settings and patient groups and clinical pathways.
- Provide clinical and professional supervision and feedback to the team to facilitate self-development.
- Plan, organise and deliver training to students, assistants, junior staff and colleagues including wider multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as required.
- Lead on and participate in research and development activities as required.
- Provide training to other health care professions, both undergraduate and post graduate level.
- Review, update and produce guidelines/procedures and educational resources that reflect national guidance/clinical standards and evidence-based practice.
ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with the Clinical Lead, Clinical Team Leader, Operational Service Lead and Head of Service to interpret and implement Trust and Directorate targets, national guidelines and AHP strategies within your specialist area.
- Actively contribute to the development and delivery of the Therapies Directorate and service level business and improvement plans.
- Contribute to the planning, co-coordinating, delivering and evaluation of the designated clinical service.
- Identify areas for, lead and implement, continual improvement, underpinned by evidence-based practice.
- Contribute to the performance management of the designated clinical team across a range of Quality, Delivery, Finance and People measures.
- Actively participate in the recruitment and retention of staff, ensuring competency frameworks are in place, supporting staff through probationary and preceptorship with training and feedback. Facilitate the ongoing development of your team and facilitate rotations of clinical staff where appropriate.
- Assist the service in involving service users, their families and carers in service evaluation and associated developments.
- Be responsible for deputising for the relevant leadership roles in your service area.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure you and the team adhere to the HCPC standards of conduct and professional proficiency.
- Understand and demonstrate the need to respect and uphold the rights dignity and values and autonomy of every service user.
- Understand your role, and that of your teams, in the process of promoting and maintaining health and well being for patients, self and others.
- Ensure you and your team operate within the codes of practice outlined in the Trust Behavioural Framework.
- Undertake the measurement and evaluation of the work of you and your team and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with colleagues. This will include leading on and participating in research and development.
- Support staff and patients with protected characteristics, to be a role model and ally in challenging and eliminating discrimination of all forms.
- Undertake as directed the collection of data for use in service audit and research projects. To manage and undertake research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of multi-disciplinary team audit and departmental research initiatives.
- Be actively involved in professional clinical groups, clinical interest groups, peer review, ICS wide review and standardisation of services and professional development initiatives.
- Promote awareness of the professional role within the Trust and externally.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
Working within the multidisciplinary team for the Hand Therapy providing a high level of clinical expertise with regard to highly specialist assessment skills and interactions within a defined patient group.
Provide clinical leadership and intervention to a designated service area/pathway in the delivery of a highly effective, safe and personal service, ensuring the needs of individual patients/carers as described by agreed goals/outcome measures and within defined clinical pathways.
An active member of the leadership structure, the postholder will contribute toward the strategic operational and clinical development of the service.
Provide teaching and highly specialist support in the management of complex conditions, educating other healthcare professionals and wider stakeholders.
The service operating hours are Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm.
MAIN DUTIES
- To provide clinical leadership and highly specialised expertise to a defined patient group to ensure that pathways, standards, competencies, training and monitoring are in place for the designated team, using agreed clinical pathways.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments at a highly specialist level, set patient centred goals, create evidence-based treatment plans, monitor, and evaluate a designated caseload of patients.
- Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical factors including physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, and cultural aspects of the patients life. To provide advice and intervention to facilitate an optimum level of function.
- Formulate goals in partnership with the patient, clearly communicating your clinical reasoning to justify your recommendations and utilising most appropriate treatment / intervention for the patients needs.
- Responsible for the effective management of a complex caseload individually and within team, requiring allocation and reallocation of work on a daily basis to meet changing clinical priorities and adherence to quality and performance measures.
- Contribute to the wider multidisciplinary team to provide evidence-based expertise within your specialist area.
- Contribute to the creation and review of procedures, standards and guidance relating to clinical practice and monitor effectiveness.
- Liaise with peers and specialist interest groups both regionally and nationally, to collaborate, share learning and develop shared resources to achieve standardised, best practice within your clinical area.
- Ensure the service provided by yourself and the team is safe, personal and effective. Achieving compliance to governance standards through monitoring, performance, incident reporting, risk management, outcome measures, patient experience, compliments and complaints.
- Assess capacity of patients in order to gain valid informed consent for intervention and work within organisational policy with patients who lack capacity.
- Initiate and organise reviews involving multiagency partners, taking the role of key worker, coordinator where required.
COMMUNICATION
- Communicate with professionals, patients and families/carers in a professional manner and appropriate to the individual using a range of mediums and techniques including letters, reports, groups, verbal, emails and onward referral.
- Act as an advocate on behalf of patients.
- Deal with challenging situations using conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Advise and support the team in adapting communication skills to meet individual patients needs.
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
- Ensure compliance with mandatory training for yourself.
- Take responsibility for own professional development and the development of the team using a training needs analysis and competency framework across a variety of settings and patient groups and clinical pathways.
- Provide clinical and professional supervision and feedback to the team to facilitate self-development.
- Plan, organise and deliver training to students, assistants, junior staff and colleagues including wider multi-disciplinary team and other agencies as required.
- Lead on and participate in research and development activities as required.
- Provide training to other health care professions, both undergraduate and post graduate level.
- Review, update and produce guidelines/procedures and educational resources that reflect national guidance/clinical standards and evidence-based practice.
ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with the Clinical Lead, Clinical Team Leader, Operational Service Lead and Head of Service to interpret and implement Trust and Directorate targets, national guidelines and AHP strategies within your specialist area.
- Actively contribute to the development and delivery of the Therapies Directorate and service level business and improvement plans.
- Contribute to the planning, co-coordinating, delivering and evaluation of the designated clinical service.
- Identify areas for, lead and implement, continual improvement, underpinned by evidence-based practice.
- Contribute to the performance management of the designated clinical team across a range of Quality, Delivery, Finance and People measures.
- Actively participate in the recruitment and retention of staff, ensuring competency frameworks are in place, supporting staff through probationary and preceptorship with training and feedback. Facilitate the ongoing development of your team and facilitate rotations of clinical staff where appropriate.
- Assist the service in involving service users, their families and carers in service evaluation and associated developments.
- Be responsible for deputising for the relevant leadership roles in your service area.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure you and the team adhere to the HCPC standards of conduct and professional proficiency.
- Understand and demonstrate the need to respect and uphold the rights dignity and values and autonomy of every service user.
- Understand your role, and that of your teams, in the process of promoting and maintaining health and well being for patients, self and others.
- Ensure you and your team operate within the codes of practice outlined in the Trust Behavioural Framework.
- Undertake the measurement and evaluation of the work of you and your team and current practices through the use of evidence-based practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with colleagues. This will include leading on and participating in research and development.
- Support staff and patients with protected characteristics, to be a role model and ally in challenging and eliminating discrimination of all forms.
- Undertake as directed the collection of data for use in service audit and research projects. To manage and undertake research into specific areas of clinical practice and service delivery using a range of research methodologies as part of multi-disciplinary team audit and departmental research initiatives.
- Be actively involved in professional clinical groups, clinical interest groups, peer review, ICS wide review and standardisation of services and professional development initiatives.
- Promote awareness of the professional role within the Trust and externally.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Profession specific Degree/ Diploma and HCPC Registered
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical service area
- Evidence of management and/or leadership development/ training
- Evidence of working at MSc Level (including BAHT)
- Significant post graduate experience, including experience in a relevant specialist role
- Demonstrate clinical expertise in the management of highly complex patients within clinical area
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team and wider system partner
- Experience of leading service change and quality improvement projects for safe, personal, and effective car
- Experience of clinical guidance, pathway and protocol development and implementatio
- Involvement in audit, research and evidenced based practice with demonstrable impact on quality improvement
- Able to manage high levels of risk in relationship to patient care
- Advanced knowledge of a variety of assessment and clinical interventions skills relevant to service area
- Advanced written and verbal skills to optimise patient management
- Able to demonstrate skills in advanced clinical reasoning skills
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
- Involvement in Special Clinical Interest Group
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Profession specific Degree/ Diploma and HCPC Registered
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical service area
- Evidence of management and/or leadership development/ training
- Evidence of working at MSc Level (including BAHT)
- Significant post graduate experience, including experience in a relevant specialist role
- Demonstrate clinical expertise in the management of highly complex patients within clinical area
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team and wider system partner
- Experience of leading service change and quality improvement projects for safe, personal, and effective car
- Experience of clinical guidance, pathway and protocol development and implementatio
- Involvement in audit, research and evidenced based practice with demonstrable impact on quality improvement
- Able to manage high levels of risk in relationship to patient care
- Advanced knowledge of a variety of assessment and clinical interventions skills relevant to service area
- Advanced written and verbal skills to optimise patient management
- Able to demonstrate skills in advanced clinical reasoning skills
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
- Involvement in Special Clinical Interest Group
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
