Band 4 Prosthetic / Orthotic Assistant Technician
- NHS
- Full Time
- Birmingham
- 28392.00 - 31157.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
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.
Prosthetic/ Orthotic Assistant Technician provides technical input to the Prosthetic/ Orthotic Service at West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre, and the satellite clinics.
The Prosthetic/ Orthotic Assistant Technician provides technical skills and support to ensure the highest quality Prosthetic/Orthotic Service is delivered to patients, through close liaison with the clinical and non-clinical team.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for completing repair schedules in a timely manner as allocated by the workshop manager, working and communicating as an integral member of the clinical and non-clinical team.
Responsible for evaluating prosthetic/ orthotic medical devices, undertake equipment testing and prosthetics/ orthotics adaptations.
Communicates effective and concisely with the workshop/ clinicians regarding worksheets instructions on how to manufacture the medical device; advice/ supervision available from senior technicians.
Performs skills for analysing & diagnosing faults in complex medical devices which requires concentration on planned maintenance & dealing with fault on equipment connected to prosthetic & orthotic patients; advice/ supervision available from senior technicians.
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,
About us
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - known as BCHC - has over 5,000 staff dedicated to delivering the best care we can to those using our services, and to helping build healthy communities.
The team deliver more than 100 different NHS services for people of all ages - from birth through childhood and adult life to older years.
BCHC provides core community health services for the 1.1 million people of Birmingham and also a range of specialist rehabilitation and dental services for the 6.5 million people across the wider West Midlands region.
BCHC colleagues are focused on delivering safe, high quality care, working across a range of locations including people's own homes, community clinics and hospital settings. BCHC actively works in integrated style with a range of partner organisations across health and social care, and promotes equitable access for all to NHS services.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person Specification for full details of this vacancy .
Please note that this vacancy will close once it reaches a set number of aplications.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- HNC Level 4 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of Prosthetic/ Orthotics (may include formal training)
- Relevant experience in a technical service of medical devices for patients
- Relevant experience of analysing problems and solutions
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Health & Safety and Risk Management
- Knowledge of manual handling processes for the management of loads, integral to the daily workflows
- Highly developed hand skills, where a degree of precision and speed are required, as well as good levels of hand, eye, and sensory co-ordination
Desirable
- Understanding of a wide range of modern servicing techniques, materials and processes
- Understanding of the range of componentry used within prosthetic/ orthotic services
- Working knowledge of the Medical Devices Regulations (UK)
Personal qualities
Essential
- Highly developed hand skills, where a degree of precision and speed are required, as well as good levels of hand, eye, and sensory co-ordination
- Willingness to undertake all relevant training to meet the requirements of/ enhance 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
West Midlands Rehab Centre
91 Oak Tree Lane
Birmingham
B29 6JA
United Kingdom
