Hand Therapist (OT/Physiotherapist)

To be responsible for carrying out in-depth, evidence based assessment, intervention and evaluation of occupational performance needs To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and work alone as a highly skilled clinician providing guidance within their specialist field To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related, service and professional demands To treat referrals in a timely and appropriate manner prioritising and triaging as required To document interventions on S1 IT systems as required by the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust To complete therapy and close referrals within appropriate timescales When necessary, to make internal or external referrals to the appropriate team or service To work as an autonomous practitioner to manage a caseload of clients with various levels of need i.e. rheumatology, medical, neurological conditions and/or psychosocial needs.

Often in an acute phase of illness/injury and to provide therapy intervention in order to enable optimum occupational performance maintaining and/or developing their current roles e.g. employment To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload To carry out risk assessments and risk management independently To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where such capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient To undertake the comprehensive assessment and accurate diagnosis of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using expert investigative analytical and enhanced clinical reasoning skills To design therapy/rehabilitation plans in collaboration with the Service User and/or carer using a range of rehabilitation approaches to achieve occupational performance goals To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training, advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the physical, psychological and social environment to meet the occupational performance needs of the client To provide the assessment, design, manufacture of splints as appropriate to the Service User needs, to enable the maximum safety and independence in ADL To provide professional supervision to junior members of the team To take on the responsibility of practice educator for hand therapy students placements as required To contribute to the day to day management of the Hand Therapy Service as delegated by the Clinical Lead Hand Therapist To use effectively and efficiently all IT systems as required by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust To maintain relevant data, statistics, workload and manpower information for yourself and your team.

This will include manual handling advice To understand and apply relevant national clinical guidelines and relevant national standards to which quality and effective practice should be monitored Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full information regarding this post and its requirements.