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. You will be required to run a clinic based in outpatients, treating post operative and non-surgical caseload.
Spire Hartswood Hospital is a 49 bed hospital with 4 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 GP's, 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 Spire's 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 further information please call Carly Dack on 07850725333 or email
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.
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