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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 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.

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 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. 

Evidence of previous involvement with audit and student education is desirable.

We are a friendly and supportive team of experienced therapists, assistant practitioners, admin staff and volunteers. 

The team treats patients with acute and chronic Musculoskeletal and Rheumatology conditions, including post-operative therapy for trauma and elective procedures.

 We are currently based across two sites, Warrington, and Halton Hospitals. 

Our facilities include 1:1 treatment areas, on both sites, plus a fully equipped heavy and light workshop facility at Halton. We deliver interventions across both sites in the form of 1:1 sessions and group sessions.

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Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.