At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage your own patient caseload and provide specialist therapy assessments.
- Company: Join the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust team.
- Benefits: Enjoy NHS discounts, pension access, and mandatory training opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic roles available with potential for higher banding based on experience.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patients' lives with your expertise in hand therapy.
- Qualifications: Experience in hand therapy and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 38141 - 46617 £ per year.
The Staff Bank for Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust are seeking enthusiastic senior Hand Therapy Therapists to join our pool of Staff Bank workers. There are many full-time roles available, but as they are ever-changing, the exact roles available will be provided once your Hiring & Recruitment is complete. We can give you an idea of the type of roles available at the time of contact, but we cannot guarantee set roles as your hiring time may vary. Depending on previous relevant experience and previous NHS experience, higher banding/rates can be discussed.
The Staffbank Benefits include:
- Access to Mandatory Training
- Access to an NHS email giving you further access to NHS Discounts such as the Blue Light Card & Health Service Discounts
- Access to NHS Pension
Key Responsibilities:
- To carry and prioritise own patient caseload and other ongoing tasks, allocating appropriate work to technical instructors and students.
- To perform specialist therapy assessment of patients with diverse and complex presentations, using advanced clinical reasoning skills to analyse, interpret and make judgements on complex facts or situations, to provide specialised packages of care, treatment and advice to patients, based on sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and the range of treatment options and/or adaptive techniques and/or equipment provision, and/or care services.
- To attend consultant outpatient clinics and to assess and treat patients as necessary.
- To incorporate the appropriate standard assessment tools with patients, and apply additional relevant skills in specialised splint making.
- To communicate sensitively and reassuringly complex condition and functional risk/limitation related information to patients/carers, to gain consent to and co-operation in assessment and treatment, and in giving specialist advice to patients/carers regarding their options for ongoing care needs.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings as the hand therapist representative for individual patients, to inform complex discussions, gain a full range of information prior to planning patient-centred goals, analyse options for meeting goals and participate in the clinical decision-making process and development of comprehensive MDT plans for discharge.
- To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required.
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Sep 2026.
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