We have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and progressive Outpatient team, with amazing opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills within a friendly, supportive team . The successful candidate will join our established outpatient hand therapy service, providing musculoskeletal and rheumatology assessment, advice and treatment to patients referred by Trauma, Orthopaedic, Rheumatology, GP’s, AHP’s, FCP’s and ED Advanced practitioners. We have excellent communication with the consultants and other members of the MDT.
This post holder will be responsible for delivering trauma and orthopaedic Occupational Therapy services with some overlap into rheumatology. The post will require you to work across both sites.
To arrange an informal chat or visit please contact:
Anne Harrison
[email protected] 01925 66 2725 or Jessica Price
[email protected] 01925 27 5232
Ideally, you will have experience working within the field of hand therapy and management of complex chronic conditions , and be able to demonstrate a high
level of clinical reasoning and skills within these areas, although a training post would be considered for band 5’s wishing to branch out into a speciality team and service.
The duties of the candidate will be, provide assessments, advice, and treatment for your own case load. Therefore, you would be expected to have skills and knowledge in assessment and treatment planning, bespoke and orthotic splint provision, and other treatment modalities in line with current national guidelines for hand therapy.
You will be required to provide supervision and undertake leadership tasks. We offer excellent team support and regular informal and formal supervision with experienced clinicians.
CPD is offered in the form of regular in-service training, internal and external courses.
Evidence of previous involvement with audit and student education is desirable.
Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation
Our mission is to be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other
Our vision is to be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn
Our approach to healthcare is founded on our four core values :
- Kind – we are caring, supporting and respectful to everyone
- Open – we are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
- Fair – we listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
- One team – we work well together and with our communities
We employ almost 6,500 people from more than 80 nationalities and are fully committed to being an equal, diverse and inclusive employer. Our culture and values ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and that no job applicant or employee is disadvantaged at any stage of their journey.
We are also proud to be an Armed Forces Friendly organisation and welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists and families.
Working at NCM means becoming part of a dedicated team of clinical and support staff who are passionate about keeping people well and supporting wellbeing. If you share our values and are motivated by making a difference for our patients, we'd be delighted to receive your application
To manage your clinical caseload with autonomy, guided by policies, procedures, codes of practice and departmental working practices
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and advanced analytical skills and clinical reasoning.
Using developed knowledge and experience to make a therapeutic diagnosis of a patient’s condition and interpret clinical findings and documentation to formulate a comprehensive specialised programme of care, including decision making about the most appropriate treatment options. This may be for patients with a wide range of diagnoses and problems and will need regular updating to ensure to ensure optimum therapeutic outcome. For example, where self-referral occurs, clinical diagnosis is made, and a programme of care is developed.
To supervise less experienced staff and students in the provision of patient care.
To provide planned and spontaneous advice to patients/clients, junior staff, staff of other disciplines, formal and informal carer/relatives.
o have highly developed physical skills for the treatment of patients. This may involve the use of specialist equipment, materials, and tools, for example for splinting, computers, equipment for activities of daily living.
Please see JD and PS for more details.
