Bank Hand Therapist

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. Are you looking for part-time hours to supplement your work week? You will be required to run a day/evening 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 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.