Bank Hand Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Bank Hand Therapist |Hartswood Hospital, Brentwood | Ad hoc shifts

Spire Hartswood Hospital is recruiting for a Hand Therapist to join the bank and provide exemplary planned care for patients. Are you looking for part-time hours to supplement your work week? You will be required to run a day/evening clinic based in outpatients, treating post operative and non-surgical caseload.

Spire Hartswood Hospital is a 49 bed hospital with4 theatres and offers a comprehensive range of services and facilities. Our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business bringing together the best people who are dedicated to developing excellent clinical environments and delivering the highest quality patient care.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To take the lead role in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal/ Hand and Wrist patients.
• Provide specialist education and teaching.
• To contribute towards departmental research and audit in this clinical area.
• To ensure the teams deliver effective care to clients, presenting with musculoskeletal injuries by providing excellent clinical and organisational leadership.
• To act as a Specialist Hand Therapist resource for the multi-disciplinary team within Spire Healthcare.
• To promote and assist in marketing of service developments to GPs, Consultants and external agencies.
• To undertake evidence based projects, including recommendations for changes in practice.

Who we're looking for:

• Degree (BSc Hons Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapist) or equivalent
• Post-Graduate learning in musculoskeletal programme
• Post graduate experience in Hand Therapy
• Experience of applying clinical reasoning skills to a range of complex and varied caseloads
• Experience of working in partnership with consultants and participating in creating innovative solutions for new services
• Competence across a range of Hand Therapy, management and leadership skills supported by highly skilled professional and specialist knowledge in the field of MSK

Benefits:

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spires specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Experience

Essential

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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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Spire Healthcare Ltd

Address

Eagle Way, Great Warley, Warley, Brentwood CM13 3LE

Brentwood

CM13 3LE

Employer's website

https://www.spirehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)