Hand Therapist

Advance Level Hand Therapist

Chichester Hospital | Physiotherapy

Permanent | Part-Time (22.5 Hours)

£52,500.00 GBP Annual (Prorated: £31,500.00) DOE

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We offer flexible working, freedom to focus on patients, and everything you need to take your career further. With senior mentoring, academy training – and our partnership with the Manchester Metropolitan University – you could progress further in your clinical role or to a managerial position.

As a Hand Therapist at Chichester Hospital, you will manage a complex clinical caseload of hand therapy patients referred from Consultants, GP's, PMI's or self referrals, as well as post-operative patients. You will work within a multidisciplinary team including nurses, AHP's and consultants, playing a key role in helping our patients recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to. You will liaise closely with our orthopaedic hand surgeons, running clinics alongside them.

You will be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and integrity along with excellent communication skills and participate and provide support to the national Nuffield Health Hand Therapy network with regular supervision sessions.

As an Advanced Hand Therapist, you will:

• Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.
• Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, in which we encourage behaviour which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring.
• Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led and responsive to our patients needs.
• Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided.
• Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes.

To succeed as our Advanced Hand Therapist, you will:

• Have a BSc in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy or equivalent and you’ll be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Demonstrate evidence of further professional hand therapy specific training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner.
• Have a minimum of 5 years experience working in the field of hand therapy with experience of leading a service desirable.
• Be able to demonstrate excellent hand therapy and splinting skills.
• Be a confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with the general public and other healthcare professionals.
• Be a competent and confident IT user with strong organisation skills
• Have the ability to prioritise and deal with your varied workload in an effective and timely manner.

Supporting your growth.

We’re committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, you’ll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development. As a Nuffield Health therapist, you’ll also enjoy opportunities to apply for funding support towards your relevant CPD activity and postgraduate study. Plus, you can access further professional development opportunities via the large number of apprenticeship programmes we offer.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. With private healthcare, free gym membership for yourself and discounted for family, a cycle to work scheme, online GP, emotional wellbeing support– at Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded, CQC 'outstanding' rated hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking.

We care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and rheumatology. Our physiotherapy department treats patients at both the hospital and the Nuffield Health fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester Gate.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.