Senior Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Are you looking to develop your hand therapy skills? We are looking to recruit an innovative and enthusiastic physiotherapist or occupational therapy to join our hand therapy team for a 12 months fixed term contract.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) and we have two clinical academics within the therapy team supporting improvement and research projects. St-Mary's is home to the North West London's Major Trauma Centre giving our team a unique experience treating complex major trauma patients and truly work in a multidisciplinary team.

Our mission is to provide world class healthcare for our patients, through excellence in research, education and training.

The post is static and based at Charing Cross Hospital and St-Mary's Hospital. The post holder will carry a varied caseload of patients referred by trauma and orthopaedic, plastics and rheumatology. The successful applicant will be responsible for managing a largely outpatient caseload, but will also have responsibilities covering hand therapy inpatients on the wards.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality hand therapy management to patients at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
• To perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions.
• To develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree (or equivalent) in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
• State registration with the Health Professions Council
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio
• Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity

Desirable criteria

• Membership of the Chartered Society of Hand therapy or Royal College of Occupational Therpy
• Membership of the British Association of Hand Therapists

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant hand therapy specialities and clinical settings
• Experience of working as part of a hand therapy and multidisciplinary team
• To have participated in service development projects
• Experience of clinical education of staff, students or assistants
• Experience of supervision of students/ hand therapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills
• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital
• To have undertaken audit and/or research, either within area of hand therapy speciality or as part of the MDT

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in the NHS in Hand Therapy at a band 6
• Involvement with Clinical Governance issues and an understanding of their relation to patient care

Skills

Essential criteria

• Competent IT skills
• Be fluent in spoken English

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of CPD in hand therapy .

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 840.5KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)