Specialist Physiotherapist or OT- Hand Therapy | Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Truro, TR1 3LJ |
| Company: | Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6178836/156-6178836 |
Summary
Hand Therapist: Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
Are you a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist with a special interest in hands? Do you have experience working with hand injuries and conditions and would like to further your career within the speciality of Hand Therapy?
We are looking for a skilled Senior Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist to join our friendly, busy Hand Therapy team at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust.
You will be joining a specialist service treating injuries & conditions of the hand, especially hand trauma, elective conditions and early post-operative hands and wrists both at the multidisciplinary clinics & in the Therapy Dept. You will work closely with the Hand Surgeons, ESPs, nurses & the Occupational Therapists on this team.
There is also the potential for this post to become rotational within the specialisation of outpatients and hands, if there is the interest in this, although this is not guaranteed.
We are also looking for hand therapists to go onto the bank in hand therapy.
We are looking for a team member who can contribute effective Hand Therapy input and is also willing to share clinical skills & knowledge.
Do you have caring qualities, effective communication skills, a flexible approach and an ability to work under pressure, both as part of a team and independently? Can you demonstrate up to date clinical knowledge and training in this area? If so, do consider joining our team for this secondment.
This is a full time permanent post of 37.5 hours per week
We have created a mini rotation within the hand therapy department where you will work more specifically with either trauma, elective conditions or post operative hands. This is to focus the learning and teaching on particular areas of hand therapy. We are also looking at the possibility of opening up this rotation to include outpatients, if there is the interest. This is still, however, in the planning stages and is not mandatory for the applicant.
The team consists of 2 part time band 7 Team Lead/Clinical specialist hand therapists, plus 3 band 6 hand therapists, a mix of OT and PT, and a hand therapy assistant. We work closely with the Orthopaedic and Plastics Hand Surgeons, the hand ESPs, the dressings nurses and administration team in the Hand Unit in St Michael's Hospital and at clinics in RCHT.
Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.
To provide a high standard Hand Therapy service to patients at Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust.
To provide specialist assessment, treatment, and goal setting of patients in an outpatient setting and occasionally on the wards. Some patients may have complex and/or chronic presentations. To determine clinical diagnosis and Hand Therapy treatment indicated. To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
You will develop highly specialist skills under the guidance of the Hand Therapy Team Leader / Hand Surgeons
To provide clinical cross cover within your team as delegated by your Clinical Team Lead
To attend clinical level discussions / meetings relating to your area of work as delegated by your Clinical Team Lead
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
1. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your
own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure a high
standard of clinical care for the patients under your management.
2. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnoses
and prognoses in a wide range of medical / surgical / musculo-skeletal /
neurological conditions independently, and for complex conditions with the
guidance and supervision of your Senior staff. To recommend the best course of
intervention and discharge plans.
3. To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, using investigative and
analytical skills. To use clinical reasoning, and utilise a wide range of treatment
skills and options to formulate management and treatment programmes of care
that are sensitive to individual values, cultural and religious diversity. To integrate
these into a multidisciplinary care. To work with your senior staff to provide this
service for patients with complex presentations.
4. To delegate parts of your caseload to support staff, as appropriate. To maintain
appropriate professional and legal responsibility and accountability for the work
that you delegate.
5. To demonstrate dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and
manual treatment of patients. You will be required to employ safe moving and
handling techniques during your therapeutic handling of patients.
6. To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with
legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and
treatment results to the appropriate disciplines both verbally and in writing e.g.
medical notes, reports and letters.
7. To be aware of Health and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies,
which may be required to improve the safety of your work area, including your
prompt recording and reporting of accidents using the Trust reporting systems, and
ensuring that equipment use is safe. To risk assess all areas of your work including
manual handling risks, bio-hazards from for example open wounds, body fluids /
sputum, anxious or angry clients/carers, lone working, patients with mental health
or cognitive dysfunctions etc.
8. To provide spontaneous and planned advice, treatment options, teaching and
instruction to patients, relatives, carers and other health and social care
professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of Physiotherapy, and to
ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
9. To contribute to occasional Hand Therapy educational / work place / home visits.
10.To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid consent and
have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to
consent to treatment. To work with your Senior staff to assess for compliance to
Fraser Guidelines for the consent of paediatric patients
11. To be an active member of the RCH out of hours service as part of the wider physiotherapy team.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024