Specialist Hand Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated hand therapist to join our service as our current team member is relocating overseas. You will support this innovative team with excellent clinical skills that deliver high quality person-centred care and support the service leads to deliver department objectives and service development.

You will work as part of a medium-size adult hand therapy department that includes clinical hand therapists and rotational staff from bands 5-8, and clinical academic hand therapists from Queen Mary University of London. The service covers primary and secondary care referrals.

Your main role will be providing care for patients referred through secondary care trauma pathways, supporting the development of junior staff, participating in teaching programmes and taking part in service development and line management of junior staff.

We have a well-established in-service training programme, but also encourage post-graduate courses and hand therapy accreditation for all static hand therapists within the team. Our service has close links with the Centre for Bone and Joint Health at QMUL, with staff often collaborating on research and service development.

 

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality and specialist occupational therapy interventions to a wide variety of outpatients including the advanced assessment and treatment of hand trauma (Orthopaedics and Plastics), Rheumatology and Tower Hamlets GP referred patients, provision of individual and group education and treatment, provision of assistive devices (splints) and equipment.

To utilise specialist skills to work without direct supervision with patients who vary greatly in age, communication ability, language, functional ability, cultural and social background.

To work in a highly diverse, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and socio-economically varied environment and gain further skills in outpatient hand therapy. Ensure treatment is of the highest standards regardless of cultural or language differences and support the staff you supervise in doing likewise.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Clinical experience in a range of specialties relevant to the rotation, with mandatory rotation experience in musculoskeletal upper limb caseloads.
  • Knowledge of a broad range of clinical conditions
  • Demonstrated completion of KSF full-outline requirements for Band 5 staff
  • Equipment provision and assessment
  • Working within a multidisciplinary and/or occupational therapy team
  • Contributing to professional development and clinical education of more junior staff, students and assistants
  • Experience of working with a musculoskeletal upper limb caseload.
  • Experience in the prescription and fabrication of splints.
  • Wound management

Desirable

  • Involvement in audit, research and understanding of quality issues
  • Knowledge of local community services and agencies (i.e. intermediate care, day hospital)
  • Experience working in an integrated occupational therapy service
  • Superficial burns management

Qualifications

Essential

  • Diploma or Degree in Occupational Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy HCPC Registration
  • Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent post graduate courses/training relevant to rotational clinical specialties

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 14 June 2026

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