# Specialist Occupational Therapist **Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Tooting **Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9200-26-0993?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_933929c6-62c ## Description This role in hand therapy provides specialised rehabilitation services within the clinical specialty of hand therapy, managing a wide variety of clinical presentations including hand trauma and chronic/routine hand conditions. With this role clinicians are involved in the assessment and treatment of hand therapy patients including splint fabrication, exercise prescription, scar/oedema management and functional rehabilitation. The role also involves clinical teaching and learning of new and rotational staff within the team, and contributes to regular teaching and learning with hand therapy. There are opportunities for supervision of students and involvement in clinical audit and service development projects. The caseload consists primarily of acute hand trauma, referred via the Plastic Surgery and Trauma and Orthopaedics Departments. The team also accepts referrals for patients from Rheumatology and local GPs. The team is also the specialist therapy team for the management of both trauma and congenital paediatric hand conditions. You will be involved in carrying a clinical caseload consisting of both trauma and routine conditions. This role may also involve working within the paediatric hand therapy service seeing acute injuries and congenital conditions. Opportunities for supervision, teaching, research and service development are available and encouraged as part of this role and will be supported where possible. The hand therapy team is part of a large outpatient therapies department based within a Southwest London Teaching Hospital. The successful post holder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of: A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement. We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these. If you have the motivation, enthusiasm and desire to develop your clinical, leadership and managerial skills plus the ability to work well and flexibly within a team, we welcome your application for this post. This post is open to an Occupational Therapist who has experience in hand therapy. Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year Pro rata per annum including inner London HCAS ## Skills ### Required - Clinical Reasoning skills - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate - Ability to document legible and accurate notes in English using the SOAP note writing system according to local standards - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the English language - Hand Assessment skills - Proficiency with treatment modalities used in hand therapy - Static splinting skills - Group work skills - Ability to work under pressure - Flexible working approach - Initiative - Competent IT skills ### Nice to have - Dynamic splinting skills - Experience in use of therapeutic ultrasound - Student supervision - Clinical Audit / Research - Involvement in service development --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9200-26-0993?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)