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Job requirements
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Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience in a technical service, delivering direct patient facing support, involving medical devices
- Experience
Proven experience of complex assembly with all major components and/or overhauling components
- Experience
Experience of autonomous decision-making in complex clinical-technical situations.
- Skills and knoweldge
Managing challenging conversations with reassurance and professionalism
- Skills and knoweldge
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Skills and knoweldge
Skills of working in manufacturing environment, with good hand skills. Good use of hand tools (eg. drills, hammers etc.)
- Skills and knoweldge
IT skills to enable update of patient records and analysis of equipment software
- Qualifications / training
Degree in Prosthetics & Orthotics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Clinical Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent
Desirable
6 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Proven experience of complex draping and laminating work
- Experience
Experience contributing to service development, audit, or quality improvement initiatives
- Skills and knoweldge
Advance knowledge of manual handling processes and risk assessments for the management of loads, integral to the daily workflows
- Qualifications / training
Leadership or management qualification
- Qualifications / training
Quality improvement qualification
- Qualifications / training
Project management training.
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.***
Working autonomously within agreed protocols, the post holder provides direct clinical and technical interventions, supports planned preventative maintenance programmes, responds to emergency repairs, and contributes to rehabilitation outcomes through the optimisation of prosthetic function. The role requires specialist knowledge of prosthetic componentry, biomechanics, gait and skeletal alignment, together with highly developed practical skills in the manufacture, adjustment and repair of prostheses.
The post holder works as part of the multidisciplinary team, providing specialist technical advice to Prosthetists, Orthotists, Rehabilitation Engineers and other healthcare professionals. They are also responsible for supporting equipment safety, quality improvement, training, governance activities and the implementation of new technologies to ensure the delivery of a safe and high-quality service.
Main duties of the job
Manage an independent caseload of patients requiring prosthetic assessment, maintenance, repair, adjustment and optimisation.
Assess, diagnose and resolve complex prosthetic and orthotic equipment issues, determining the most appropriate technical intervention to support patient rehabilitation.
Manufacture, modify, fit, maintain and repair prosthetic devices using specialist technical skills and equipment.
Deliver planned preventative maintenance clinics and undertake emergency repairs to ensure prosthetic devices remain safe and effective for patient use.
Provide direct clinical and technical support to patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team.
Apply specialist knowledge of biomechanics, gait analysis, skeletal alignment and prosthetic componentry to support patient outcomes.
Maintain accurate patient records and service documentation using electronic patient record systems.
Provide specialist technical advice to Prosthetists, Orthotists, Rehabilitation Engineers and other healthcare professionals.
Support equipment safety, risk management, quality assurance, incident investigation and regulatory compliance activities.
Lead and support service improvement projects, audits, equipment evaluations and the implementation of new technologies.
Deliver training, supervision and competency assessments for technicians, apprentices and other staff members.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of the Clinical Support Technician position.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Band 6 Clinical Support Technician with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Technician (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 11 Sep 2026.
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