Hand Therapist (Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist)
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 September 2025 |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB2 3HH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9435-25-0349 |
Summary
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.