Specialist Hand Therapist Team Leader

Are you a dynamic and motivated highly skilled Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist looking to take the next step in your career? An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Trust to recruit a 30-hour Specialist Hand Therapist.
As a clinical expert Hand Therapist, you will deliver patient-centred care across the full spectrum of wrist and hand conditions, including trauma, elective surgical recovery, and non-surgical referrals.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the specialist hand therapy service, ensuring high standards of care and fostering a collaborative environment for ongoing professional growth. You’ll be joining a supportive and expert team that includes: 2 x Band 7 Hand Therapists / 1 x Band 6 Hand Therapist/ Rotational Band 5/6 Physiotherapists & 2 Wrist and Hand Consultants
**To find out more or arrange an informal chat, contact**:
**The post holder will**:
Lead role in the specialist rehabilitation and management of complex wrist and hand problems.
Coordinate and manage all patients with wrist and hand problems.
Be responsible for planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating clinical case work within the Orthopaedic & MSK Physiotherapy Hand Therapy Service.
Provide evidence based, highly specialist knowledge and skills to the specialist MSK & hand therapy service.
Provide a key role in partnership collaborating with patients, carers, the MDT, and wider statutory, private, and voluntary sector services.
Be accountable for the quality and safety of advanced and highly skilled assessment and management of patients with a variety of complex, acute & chronic wrist, and hand presentations
Work closely with orthopaedics, medical, AHP and nursing colleagues to ensure high quality patient care.
Lead quality improvements and continually develop and modernise the physiotherapy provision to patients with complex wrist and hand problems
Be prepared to work flexibly in terms of time and workload to meet service needs.
Be professionally accountable
To continually develop and modernise the physiotherapy provision to patients with complex wrist and hand problems
To take responsibility for staff and student training/development.
Provide support to operational and service managers deputizing for them as required
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
Cycle to Work
Travel Scheme
Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
Onsite Nursery
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Car Leasing
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Health and Wellbeing
Extensive Reward Scheme
Counselling Service
Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
**Our values**:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
Committed to Quality of Care
Compassion
Working together for patients
Improving Lives
Everyone Counts
Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
**Key responsibilities include**:
Managing a complex clinical caseload using expert assessment and treatment strategies
Collaborating closely with orthopaedic Hand and Wrist Surgeons on integrated pathways for splinting, wound care, and rehabilitation
Providing timely triage and early intervention for post operative, emergency department referrals & urgent conditions to prevent complications
Managing chronic hand/wrist conditions referred by primary care and supporting MSK/FCP colleagues
Leading on service outcomes, staff development, student training, and coordination of rotations
Working in partnership with Therapy Managers, Clinical Leads, and MDT teams to promote streamlined, flexible care pathways
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in shaping the specialist hand therapy service, ensuring high standards of care and fostering a collaborative environment for ongoing professional growth.