Highly Specialist ProsthetistNHS

Job summary

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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.

Why join us?

• Outstanding enhanced pay rate of £81.25 per hour
• Flexible 24-hour working week
• 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.

Apply today and be part of a service that changes lives.

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.

Job description

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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.