Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (TBC)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1754
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist hand therapist
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
As one of London’s leading NHS trusts, we have a world-class reputation for clinical care, teaching and research. This is an exciting opportunity to become built up Band 7 experience and become a key member of the hand therapy service and manage a varied and complex caseload of patients from trauma, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, rheumatology, A&E and major trauma.
We are looking to recruit an inspiring, innovative and highly specialist occupational therapist or physiotherapist to join our hand therapy team to offer clinical and operational expertise and leadership. In collaboration with other senior Therapy staff you will support delivery of a high quality and responsive service.
This is a fixed term contract band 7 for a total of 6 months from the start date.
Main duties of the job
- To plan and deliver a client centred hand therapy service to patients in hospital and in outpatient hand therapy clinics.
- To assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid, informed consent and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- The ability to manage, treat, and discharge a diagnostically varied and complex patient caseload.
- To communicate and liaise effectively with other professionals, patients, family/carers and other agencies to ensure an integrated pattern of service delivery. Use formal and informal reporting mechanisms including electronic reporting, to ensure effective communication related to health and social care referral procedures.
- To remain informed on developments and trends in hand therapy through study of the current literature available, adapting own working practices accordingly.
- To develop clinical, leadership and teaching skills via continuous professional development (CPD), including maintenance of an up to date CPD portfolio.
- To organise the induction and/or training of staff, both within or external to the department.
- Build and sustain relationships as an independent practitioner and collaboratively as a member of a team.
- To participate in the delivery of the Directorate / Therapy business plan, including operational planning and implementation of policy and service development within the team, leading on delegated projects.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma OT / Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- Adequate English to fulfil job requirements
- Demonstration of continued education / training in speciality area
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate training at masters module level or equivalent related to clinical speciality (BAHT level 2 or equivalent)
- Placement practice educator trained
- Clinical Supervisors course
Experience
Essential criteria
- A level of post-graduate OT / Physiotherapy experience proportional to the competencies associated with the post including experience of working in an outpatient Hand Therapy department
- Experience of treating a variety of commonly seen orthopaedic and acquired hand conditions, using appropriately designed evidence based protocols
- Experience of making a variety of splints commonly used in hand therapy, or of using suitable pre-fab options to meet treatment aims
- Experience splinting and protocols for the post-surgical management of commonly seen hand conditions
- Experience of choosing, using, accurately recording and evaluating standardised assessments frequently used in hand therapy
- Experience of developing individual treatment programmes specific to presenting symptoms and therapeutic / MDT goals
- Experience of carrying out a range of therapeutic modalities specific to hand therapy
- Teaching, supervision and guidance of junior staff and other professions including supervision and support of therapy students and students of other professions
- Team work and effective communication / liaison
- Recording and reporting on intervention and maintenance of activity data
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Knowledge of core therapeutic skills in managing patients with mental health problems
Desirable criteria
- Previous Band 7 experience
- Experience of working in MDT clinics or major trauma centre
- Experience of dynamic splinting for conservative or post-surgical management of hand conditions
- Developing, monitoring, evaluating and auditing services
- Experience or formal training in research or evidence of implementation of research findings in day to day practice
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Management of a varied caseload of patients with acquired or traumatic conditions
- Evidence of knowledge of plastic surgery protocols and advanced skills in Hand Therapy
- Advanced knowledge of the anatomy, physiology and biomechanics of the hand and upper limb
- Knowledge of wound healing processes and dressings
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner seeking guidance when necessary for more complex patients
- Clinical reasoning and problem solving to identify and develop relevant client-centred, goal orientated treatment plans for routine trauma patients
- Ability to fabricate static and dynamic splints for the conservative management of a variety of conditions commonly seen in hand therapy
- Advanced knowledge of outcome measures and standardised assessments commonly used in hand therapy
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information and feedback appropriately to Consultant colleagues
- Ability to undertake team leadership roles where appropriate, including staff management and supervisory skills
- Ability to cope with pressurised working environments. Skills to manage and be accountable for team workload prioritisation.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of presentation & training skills; writing for publication
- Evidence of training in leadership/ team building skills
- Skills in the treatment of post-surgical tendon injuries
- Training in measuring for pressure garments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Donna Kennedy
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Academic for OT
- Email address
- [email protected]
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