Highly Specialist Prosthetist

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Bank Prosthetist (Band 7)

24 hours per week 12-week opportunity £81.25 per hour

Are you an experienced Prosthetist looking for a rewarding short-term opportunity with an exceptional rate of pay?

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) is seeking a skilled Band 7 Bank Prosthetist to join our specialist Prosthetics team for a 12-week placement, 24 hours per week.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a highly regarded specialist service while benefitting from an enhanced pay rate of £81.25 per hour, making this one of the most attractive short-term prosthetics opportunities available.

• Outstanding enhanced pay rate of £81.25 per hour
• Fixed 12-week assignment
• Opportunity to work within a specialist regional service
• Supportive multidisciplinary team environment
• Make a real difference to patients' mobility, independence and quality of life

If you're ready to combine rewarding clinical work with an exceptional rate of pay, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical Care: Assessing, analysing and developing individualised treatment plans for patients with highly complex disabilities, including performing challenging casting/shape capture and fitting bespoke prosthetic devices to paediatric and adult populations
• Service Management:Managing their own caseload, supervising other prosthetists and students, and contributing to the efficient, cost-effective delivery and development of the prosthetic service.
• Technical Expertise:Specifying, evaluating, modifying (including positive model rectifications), and ensuring the safety and quality of bespoke prosthetic devices, involving detailed communication with the manufacturing workshop.
• Communication & Documentation:Effectively communicating complex and sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues, and maintaining accurate, confidential patient records in line with professional standards.
• Leadership & Development:Providing clinical leadership, assisting in developing evidence-based services, undertaking research and audits, delivering training, and managing projects within the service.
• Safety & Compliance:Performing risk assessments, ensuring the safe use of equipment, and adhering to legal frameworks for consent and capacity. The post holder must be fully conversant in the use of equipment within the clinical and technical environment that is used to treat patients and to manufacture and adjust prostheses, and to document every clinical contact.

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BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further details on the job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached documents.

Person specification Qualifications

• BSc Honours Degree in Prosthetics or equivalent qualification
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Member of British Association of Prosthetist and Orthotists (BAPO)

Experience

• Extensive post registration clinical experience providing a broad range of experience in prosthetic service provision
• Extensive experience of working both as part of a multidisciplinary team and autonomously
• Significant experience in measuring, fitting, assessing and evaluating the function of a broad range of bespoke and stock prostheses
• Significant experience of problem solving related to prosthetic product
• Significant experience and ability of assembling, adjusting and fine tuning prosthetic products utilising appropriate tools and instruments to ensure safe and optimal fit and function
• Significant experience in Mentorship for undergraduates and other learners and to provide training, mentorship and support to placement students, graduates and less experienced members of the team.
• To identify and undertake clinical audits and/or research projects, in conjunction with the Prosthetic Clinical Lead and the Clinical Team.
• Paediatric Experience

Skills & Knowledge

• Evidence of assessment skills with particular reference to patients with highly complex disability
• Comprehensive knowledge of procurement of appropriate best value prostheses/ consumables/ custom prosthetic supply using accurate prescriptions
• Significant knowledge of clinical and technical information of available prostheses
• Significant knowledge of up-to-date evidence base in specialist area
• Excellent communication and listening skills with an understanding of the needs of people with disabilities and their carer
• Knowledge and experience of Digital scanning Technologies
• Basic workshop and machine skills for Manufacturing and adjusting prostheses
• Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility in respect of Health and Safety
• Motivation, negotiation, and reassurance and require expert verbal and non-verbal communication skills. (Use of simple and complex communication technology may be used by patients and interpreters on occasions)
• Ability to manually handle patients and / or equipment safely to attain positioning necessary to perform safe and effective clinical assessment / treatments
• Understands risk assessment and applies it to all areas of practice advising others as necessary Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment
• Communication skills for conveying sensitive and highly complex information to patients, carers, colleagues and other agencies including children and patients with learning difficulties, mental illness or distress

Personal Qualities

• Highly self-motivated
• Can prioritise own workload / caseload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations
• Is able to reflect on own clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
• Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage patient expectations any changes within a team
• Excellent interpersonal skills, Listening and counselling skills
• Formal involvement with multidisciplinary team
• Ability to maintain legible, accurate, legal clinical records this may include digital and handwritten notes
• Supporting the wider team in achieving common goals
• Problem solving skills for rare or unique disability/ deformity or specific rehabilitation goals
• Demonstrable commitment to clinical supervision/CPD

Other

• Independently mobile to meet the travel requirements of the role

In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, Band 2 clinical and non-clinical roles and Band 3 Non-Clinical roles are not eligible for sponsorship.

Please note that the majority of non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Band 3 - 6) with the exception of those which appear on this list - link , will not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK.

All non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Bands 7 - 9) that meet the prescribed skill level (RQF 6) and salary threshold will be eligible for sponsorship.

The Trust will accept applications from candidates who can evidence their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes.

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

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