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Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist Hands
| Posting date: | 28 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755.00 - £60,504.00 Per Annum (PA) Pro Rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO16 6YD |
| Company: | University Hospital Southampton NHS FT |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7172161/188-CL230425 |
Summary
A Vacancy at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a fixed term Band 8a Clinical Specialist in hand therapy, either Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist, to join our paediatric hand and upper limb therapy service within Southampton Children’s Hospital, a relatively new and evolving service. This unique role will provide advanced clinical therapeutic input for children with hand or upper limb pathologies, ranging from neonatal congenital to adolescent major trauma. We support children being managed under any of the tertiary/ regional services including orthopaedics, neonates, plastics, rheumatology and neurology ensuring appropriate holistic care and pathway provision, as inpatients, outpatients or within clinics.
We are looking for a highly experienced hand therapist, with extensive proven experience of working with a wide age range, including children. You need to be motivated and enthusiastic, have demonstrable skills within leadership, MDT working, teaching and education, plus involvement within research.
The successful post holder will work closely with the B7 upper limb paediatric Physiotherapist, with the adult hand therapists and wider MDT and be embedded into the children’s MSK service, our 40 strong combined paediatric Occupational and Physiotherapy therapy team and wider therapy services department of over 300 staff.
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
We believe that using technology wisely shows strong time management and commitment to innovation. However, personalizing your recruitment application to highlight your unique skills and experiences is crucial. Relying too heavily on generic, AI-generated content instead of drawing from your own strengths and accomplishments may lead to your application being rejected if multiple candidates present identical or similar information.
At UHSwe’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, fun and diligent person with a desire to work with children, across the subspecialties of paediatrics, to help with therapeutic interventions and rehabilitation.
Main duties summary:
- Supporting the qualified therapists with therapy treatment of a wide range of patients
- Dealing with patients who are acutely unwell, helping with personal care, including toileting, walking and undertaking everyday tasks
- Managing a simple caseload of your own
In more detail:
- Involvement in treating, monitoring and making minor alterations to the treatment of paediatric patients. This includes considering their physical, emotional, developmental, cognitive and social needs.
- Joint sessions with the therapy staff, plus managing an independent caseload both on the wards and in outpatients, and leading group sessions.
- Building a good rapport with the children and families to encourage participation.
- Working with children with a wide range of presenting conditions including orthopaedic, respiratory, neurological, and developmental needs.
- Working in different environments, including the hydrotherapy pool, high care, wards, therapy outpatients, gym, and in our offsite rehab centre: Bursledon House.
- Admin tasks, which includes using IT systems for booking appointments, ordering equipment, and data recording
- Wider departmental roles such as pool testing, resus trolley checks, assisting with student education, peer supervision, participating in training programmes, and supporting B3 staff
- Working with the other technician
Please ensure you fulfil all the essential criteria and have read the job description before applying.
For this specific role we need the following skills and/or experience:
- Proven experience of working with children and young people who have a variety of physical and cognitive impairments.
- Good communication skills: to enable close working relationships and be able to adapt their communication to meet the child’s, family, and MDT needs.
- Be physically fit and able to work with children with complex needs using different equipment and working in different positions and environments. This includes working on the floor, being water-confident in the hydrotherapy pool and therapeutically handling patients.
- Basic IT skills for completion of data bases, electronic patient records, electronic booking, and outcoming systems.
- Able to work under pressure, problem solve and prioritise tasks in an ever-changing workload
- Aware of professional boundaries and limitation of job role, identify changes in clinical presentation and be able to escalate concerns appropriately.
- Experience working in challenging and emotive situations with active coping strategies and resilience.
- Proven experience of working with children and young people who have a variety of physical and cognitive impairments.
- Able to manage working with bodily fluids and helping with personal care and chest clearance techniques
- It is desirable if you have a Level 3 qualification in a Health and social care, or children’s and young people related subject, combined with experience working with children.
As we run a 7-day therapy service, flexibility is needed to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
As you will be part of both the Paediatric team and the wider Therapy services department, you will be supported to develop your skills through in-service training and UHS opportunities.
We actively encourage all potential applicants to contact us to ask any questions you may have.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Interviews will be held on 27th May 2025
- Interviews will be held face to face due to having a practical assessment, so please dress accordingly for your interview
- We do not accept CV applications
If this post is not for you and you are interested in finding out about other Therapy opportunities, please emailAnnette.Purkis@uhs.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Monday 12 May 2025
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a fixed term Band 8a Clinical Specialist in hand therapy, either Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist, to join our paediatric hand and upper limb therapy service within Southampton Children’s Hospital, a relatively new and evolving service. This unique role will provide advanced clinical therapeutic input for children with hand or upper limb pathologies, ranging from neonatal congenital to adolescent major trauma. We support children being managed under any of the tertiary/ regional services including orthopaedics, neonates, plastics, rheumatology and neurology ensuring appropriate holistic care and pathway provision, as inpatients, outpatients or within clinics.
We are looking for a highly experienced hand therapist, with extensive proven experience of working with a wide age range, including children. You need to be motivated and enthusiastic, have demonstrable skills within leadership, MDT working, teaching and education, plus involvement within research.
The successful post holder will work closely with the B7 upper limb paediatric Physiotherapist, with the adult hand therapists and wider MDT and be embedded into the children’s MSK service, our 40 strong combined paediatric Occupational and Physiotherapy therapy team and wider therapy services department of over 300 staff.
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
We believe that using technology wisely shows strong time management and commitment to innovation. However, personalizing your recruitment application to highlight your unique skills and experiences is crucial. Relying too heavily on generic, AI-generated content instead of drawing from your own strengths and accomplishments may lead to your application being rejected if multiple candidates present identical or similar information.
At UHSwe’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, fun and diligent person with a desire to work with children, across the subspecialties of paediatrics, to help with therapeutic interventions and rehabilitation.
Main duties summary:
- Supporting the qualified therapists with therapy treatment of a wide range of patients
- Dealing with patients who are acutely unwell, helping with personal care, including toileting, walking and undertaking everyday tasks
- Managing a simple caseload of your own
In more detail:
- Involvement in treating, monitoring and making minor alterations to the treatment of paediatric patients. This includes considering their physical, emotional, developmental, cognitive and social needs.
- Joint sessions with the therapy staff, plus managing an independent caseload both on the wards and in outpatients, and leading group sessions.
- Building a good rapport with the children and families to encourage participation.
- Working with children with a wide range of presenting conditions including orthopaedic, respiratory, neurological, and developmental needs.
- Working in different environments, including the hydrotherapy pool, high care, wards, therapy outpatients, gym, and in our offsite rehab centre: Bursledon House.
- Admin tasks, which includes using IT systems for booking appointments, ordering equipment, and data recording
- Wider departmental roles such as pool testing, resus trolley checks, assisting with student education, peer supervision, participating in training programmes, and supporting B3 staff
- Working with the other technician
Please ensure you fulfil all the essential criteria and have read the job description before applying.
For this specific role we need the following skills and/or experience:
- Proven experience of working with children and young people who have a variety of physical and cognitive impairments.
- Good communication skills: to enable close working relationships and be able to adapt their communication to meet the child’s, family, and MDT needs.
- Be physically fit and able to work with children with complex needs using different equipment and working in different positions and environments. This includes working on the floor, being water-confident in the hydrotherapy pool and therapeutically handling patients.
- Basic IT skills for completion of data bases, electronic patient records, electronic booking, and outcoming systems.
- Able to work under pressure, problem solve and prioritise tasks in an ever-changing workload
- Aware of professional boundaries and limitation of job role, identify changes in clinical presentation and be able to escalate concerns appropriately.
- Experience working in challenging and emotive situations with active coping strategies and resilience.
- Proven experience of working with children and young people who have a variety of physical and cognitive impairments.
- Able to manage working with bodily fluids and helping with personal care and chest clearance techniques
- It is desirable if you have a Level 3 qualification in a Health and social care, or children’s and young people related subject, combined with experience working with children.
As we run a 7-day therapy service, flexibility is needed to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
As you will be part of both the Paediatric team and the wider Therapy services department, you will be supported to develop your skills through in-service training and UHS opportunities.
We actively encourage all potential applicants to contact us to ask any questions you may have.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Interviews will be held on 27th May 2025
- Interviews will be held face to face due to having a practical assessment, so please dress accordingly for your interview
- We do not accept CV applications
If this post is not for you and you are interested in finding out about other Therapy opportunities, please emailAnnette.Purkis@uhs.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Monday 12 May 2025