Bank Specialist Hand Therapist - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Nuffield Health

Nuffield Health

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CLINICAL & MEDICAL
Bank Specialist Hand Therapist

Bank Specialist Hand Therapist

Stoke FWC | Bank | Part Time

£24.50 per hour

Hours - Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.

Our Physiotherapy team in North Staffordshire Hospital/Stoke FWC currently have an opportunity for a Specialist Hand therapist. Continue your journey with us whilst we'll support you to be your best.

Nuffield Health is Britain's largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation, where we offer a number of flagship programmes, which our Physiotherapists support the deliverery of; from our Joint Pain programme, Cystic Fibrosis programme and School SWAP these are designed to deliver excellent clinical care as well as benefit the local communities, using our state of the art facilities and expert knowledge colleagues.

As part of the team you will have clinical support available from your Regional clinical lead along with Physiotherapists, with leadership from the management team on site.

You will have a CPD budget to encourage you to continue your learning and striving for clinical excellence.

We can offer both part time and full time hours, with a mixture of face to face time across other sites or working from home delivering triage hours.

The Role

You will work at our Fitness and Wellbeing Centre, looking after patients who have had procedures at North Staffordshire Hospital.

Therefore the multidisciplinary team you are working within includes nurses and consultants.

Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.

Undertake advanced assessment in patients who have both routine and complex hand and wrist conditions as well as conditions masquerading as musculoskeletal pathology

Demonstrates advanced clinical reasoning skills in complex and unpredictable scenarios to ensure highest quality of care is delivered to patients

Demonstrate a proven track record of clinical speciality in appropriate manual therapy, splinting, and rehabilitative exercises.

Appropriately identifies and executes referrals to Specialists/Consultants when required including the use of internal escalation pathways for patients presenting with serious pathology.

Undertakes treatment underpinned by advanced clinical knowledge and skills to deliver high quality patient outcomes.

Completes complex case management to ensure high quality, clinical effective and cost efficient care is provided which satisfies the needs of patients, service commissioners and purchasers

Maintains relevant clinical skills and provides on-going evidence of personal CPD and Professional registration.

Ensures that all records are accurately maintained and conform to all professional body, legal requirements and the Nuffield Health clinical governance policies

Adheres to the information governance policy to protect patients data at all times

Acts as a role model and clinical expert to support colleagues and less experienced therapists to enhance clinical outcomes.

Effectively manage an Outpatient caseload, working within your scope of practice as an autonomous practitioner.

Make an active contribution to the marketing, promotion and development of the Hand Therapy service within the hospital, working closely with the marketing team, consultants and GP referrers.

The Person

To succeed as a Specialist Hand Therapist you will:

Have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent, you'll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Have Significant work experience in Hand Therapy.

Relevant postgraduate training within the speciality of Hand Therapy

Experience of working with patients with a wide range of upper limb musculoskeletal pathology

Experience of working alongside orthopaedic/ rheumatology and plastics consultants

Advanced knowledge of upper limb musculoskeletal pathology, red flags and the biopsychosocial approach

Highly effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills

Case management experience - Upper Limb & Hands speciality

It's equally important that you share our values. We believe in putting people first and providing personalised, holistic healthcare. That makes you part of a much wider team, working to create a healthier future for each individual client.

The Benefits

We believe in our people and to help you develop your skills and progress your career in Nuffield Health

You will be supported by your regional clinical lead
Have protected CPD time, access to a local inservice training program and training events organised by the Nuffield Health Academy including both clinical and leadership courses.

We support and encourage post-graduate education and have formed a partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University which will offer fantastic learning and research opportunities in the future.

We encourage flexible working and flexibility with shift patterns.

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