# Band 8a Hand Therapy Team Lead

**Company**: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Romford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £63,665 to £70,887 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust as a senior Hand Therapist, providing clinical and operational leadership for the Hand Therapy service.

In this role, you will clinically lead the Hand Therapy team, delivering expert, evidence-based care and supporting professional development, while also holding operational and line management responsibility for the Hand Therapy service.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide expert clinical leadership in the assessment, treatment, and management of patients within the Hand Therapy outpatient service, maximising patient outcomes within service boundaries.

- Offer specialist guidance and advice to members of the MDT and external professionals (e.g., GPs) on matters relating to Hand Therapy care.

- Provide leadership for the Hand Therapy team, in consultation with the Line Manager, in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Hand Therapy service provided to neuromusculoskeletal out-patients on a day-to-day basis.

- Provide a leading role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, band 7s, band 6s, band 5s, physiotherapy assistant and Student Physiotherapists.

- Deliver highly specialised care for complex Hand Therapy patients, including advanced clinical assessment and interventions where appropriate.

- Support the Therapy Manager in developing the Hand Therapy service and contributing to clinical innovation and service improvement initiatives.

- Deputise in the absence of the Therapy Manager as required in outpatient clinics.

- Deputise in the absence of the Therapy Manager as required in other areas e.g. reception and admin team.

- Evaluate the day-to-day running and initiate the development of the Hand Therapy outpatient services through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and clinical guidelines using evidence-based practice and current research and recommend and implement changes.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £63,665 to £70,887 a year

- Permanent, full-time position

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

**Requirements**

- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy

- H.C.P.C. Registration

- Relevant clinical experience in the field of Hand Therapy and broad postgraduate experience

- Leadership training (desirable)

## Skills

### Required
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Hand Therapy
- Leadership
- HCPC Registration

### Nice to have
- Leadership training
- Injection experience

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