Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
The Highly Specialist Prosthetist will be an experienced clinician, who will work closely with the Clinical Lead Prosthetist and the Multidisciplinary Team to facilitate the provision of safe, high-quality care for all our patients. They will ensure prosthetic prescriptions for adults and children following limb loss are suitable and cost effective. The Highly Specialist Prosthetist will also be expected to support and manage other members of the team, to develop the service and ensure best outcomes for all prosthetic users. Alongside this, they will need to provide advice and input to wider West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre services and satellite services as required.
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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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached documents.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Independently mobile to meet the travel requirements of the role
Experience
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
- Paediatric Experience
Qualifications
Essential
- 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)
Personal Qualities
Essential
- 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
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- 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
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This advert is for Band 7 Highly Specialist Prosthetist with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Prosthetist and Orthotist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Jun 2026.
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