Band 6 Specialist Prosthetist

Job overview

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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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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