Senior Hand Therapist • Frimley Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nSenior Hand Therapist with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Frimley, England, United Kingdom\n\n Job Overview Are you... Passionate about top class patient care with a belief that every day matters. Looking for new learning opportunities to expand your competencies & skills Ready for a new challenge Driven to change the narrative of OT/PT within the Trust and our wider communities to promote and develop a strong workforce now for future generations Committed to making the NHS having a brighter future Looking to return back to practice Do you want... To learn in a fast-paced hospital setting Work with a diverse team with wide knowledge and experience Develop your knowledge and skill with support from peers, specialists, clinical educators, experienced Occupational Therapy leaders. Develop strong leadership skills to assist with service and people development A workplace that has energy and a drive to proactively respond and think outside the box for the best service now and into the future We can offer... Excellent learning opportunities with a high level of support and supervision and appraisal from senior colleagues Peer support from a large group of colleagues on the rotation A multi-professional preceptorship programme. \"Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.\" Main duties of the job To provide excellent, high-quality person centred clinical care that advocates for patients, strive to provide a service fit for today and the future, develop personal leadership to support clinical growth. Our teams across all sites have a friendly, supportive atmosphere and a real team ethic. We know how to look after our staff - making sure they achieve the ideal work-life balance. As a Trust we offer a multi-professional preceptorship programme. In addition, we offer excellent training opportunities supported by an APH practice development lead and clinical flow lead. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contribute to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities If you are inspired to know more about this opportunity and our team, please see the job description attached, which outlines the main duties of this post. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria HCPC registration Degree or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy Desirable criteria Fieldwork Educators Course Member of relevant special interest group Experience Essential criteria Knowledge of upper limb anatomy Experience in carrying out upper limb assessments, treatment planning and goal setting 18 months to 2 years post registration experience as an OT/PT some of which must be in Hand therapy Desirable criteria Experience of research and audit Basic knowledge of physiology and wound healing Skills and Knowledge Essential criteria Ability to manage own workload and determine priorities Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance Desirable criteria Training and facilitation skills Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment . Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and F"}