Band 6 Specialist Prosthetist

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West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre is a tertiary prosthetic centre, providing a full range of advice and prosthetic rehabilitation for all levels of upper and lower limb loss including paediatric services. The centre is also one of the Veteran service centres, providing an enhanced service to veterans who have lost a limb in the service of their country.

The service is delivered at West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and at two secondary centres located in Wolverhampton and Stoke-On-Trent, plus a small number of satellite clinics located across the region.

The prosthetist will be a specialist clinician, who facilitate the provision of safe, high-quality care for all our patients and will ensure prosthetic prescriptions for adults and children following limb loss are suitable and cost effective

Main duties of the job

The prosthetist is responsible for providing high quality specialist lifelong prosthetics care to patients with amputation/s or congenital limb loss, in a clinical environment. To work cohesively within the prosthetic team. To support the multidisciplinary team, deliver evidence-based care and ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

Alongside this, they will need to work with members of the specialist multi-disciplinary team and provide advice to wider West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre services and satellite services as required.

The post holder will have a responsibility for a specialist orthotic caseload, working within the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) and British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists (BAPO) professional guidelines and standards for orthotists.

The orthotist, through the utilisation of specialist assessment skills and informed patient consent, will endeavour to ensure that the best possible orthotic treatment outcome is achieved for all patients and the patient function fully optimised.

The post holder will manage and lead specific clinical and professional initiatives and service development projects within the service and will liaise with other prosthetic professionals and relevant professional groups.

About us

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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.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification Qualifications & Training

• BSc Honours Degree in Prosthetics/Orthotics 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

• Relevant experience of Adult and Paediatric Neurorehabilitation, Complex Trauma, Spinal, MSK, Orthopaedics, spasticity management and Community Neuro experience
• Experience in measuring, fitting, assessing and evaluating the function of a broad range of bespoke and stock orthoses
• Experience of working both as part of a multidisciplinary team and autonomously
• Participation in clinical audit

Skills & Knowledge

• Evidence of assessment skills with reference to patients with complex disability
• Knowledge of procurement of appropriate best value orthoses using accurate prescriptions based on stock & custom orthotic supply.
• Knowledge of clinical and technical information of available orthoses
• Knowledge of up-to-date evidence base in specialist area
• Experience of problem solving related to orthotic products
• Ability and experience of assembling, adjusting and fine-tuning orthotic products utilising appropriate tools and instruments to ensure safe and optimal fit and function.
• Ability to demonstrate individual responsibility in respect of Health and Safety
• 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
• Can prioritise own workload/ caseload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations
• Excellent interpersonal skills, Listening and counselling skills
• Ability to maintain legible, accurate, legal clinical records.
• Problem solving skills for rare or unique disability/ deformity or specific rehabilitation goals
• Communication skills for conveying sensitive and complex information to patients, carers, colleagues and other agencies including children and patients with learning difficulties, mental illness or distress
• Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage patient expectations
• Knowledge and experience of Digital scanning Technologies
• Basic workshop and machine skills
• Experience in Mentorship for undergraduates and other learners

Personal Qualities

• Highly self-motivated
• Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage patient expectations any changes within a team.
• Independently mobile to meet the travel requirements of the role

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.