Job summary
Are you looking for a new, exciting challenge?
Would you like to maintain your clinical role alongside utilising your operational leadership skills? This is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Prosthetist to have clinical and operational oversight for a group of Third-Party Provider Prosthetists, working closely with the Service Clinical Manager Prosthetics & Orthotics, and the Amputee Rehabilitation Multidisciplinary Team, whilst maintaining a complex clinical caseload in your respective clinical field. There will also be an expectation that the post holder willprovide expert advice and works collaboratively with the preferred third-party contractor, tertiary centres and the WMRC management team to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality care for all service users. The post holder will be expected tohelp shape the future for the Prosthetic Service within the West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre in Birmingham and the Satellite Clinics (Nuneaton, Coventry, Leamington, Hereford, and Worcester).
The post holder willoversee the clinical effectiveness of the Prosthetists overseeing the Service response to Complaints, Patient Experience and Staff Survey feedback. This information will be used by the post holder, in parallel with Incident, Safety, Safeguarding, clinical harms and the outcomes from clinical forum, to ensure the service delivers high quality and effective care.
Main duties of the job
- Be the lead for the Prosthetics Service; providing expert advice and working collaboratively with the preferred third-party contractor, tertiary centres and the WMRC management team to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality care for all service users
- To initiate and lead the development of new ways of working, including service redesign, working in partnership with service leads, the appropriate Trust corporate teams, third party contractors, commissioners, patients, and others.
- Liaise with manufacturers, NHS teams, industry, commerce and collaborative sources to ensure that the most current knowledge of technological development is applied to project solutions.
- Work closely with third parties and internal management team to effectively co-ordinate the delivery of the Prosthetics service to all clients
- Lead monthly team meetings and manage issues that arise.
- Have an understanding of the national perspective and future strategy for the NHS and related areas of health to ensure that staff in your team/s are fully aware of the implications and can contribute effectively to service improvement.
- Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.
- Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery.
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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 and services for people with learning disabilities. 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. If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities , please refer to the attached job description/ person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities , please refer to the attached job description/ person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Honours Degree in Prosthetics/Orthotics or equivalent qualification
- Current registration with Health and Care Professionals Council
- Member of BAPO
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience within the NHS or other Health Service provider. Minimum of 3 years of post-registration experience, including broad range experience within a variety of settings, including physical health
- Experience of leading a service at a senior level, minimum of 2 years / +/ - experienced clinician
- Experience of specific assessment and treatment techniques with a wide-ranging caseload
- Relevant experience of successful project management in specialist area
- Extensive experience of planning, prioritizing, organizing and monitoring all activities effectively within area of responsibility
- Successful track record of implementing change
Desirable
- Experience of liasing with a variety of stakeholder both internal and external
- Previous experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of clinical and technical information of available prosthetic componentry
- Knowledge of project management methodologies and a range of service improvement tools, techniques and change management theories
- Audit experience and knowledge of research principles
- Able to communicate complex or sensitive information to a wide range of people either as individuals or in groups
- Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Highly self-motivated
- Is able to reflect on own clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
- Can prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations
- Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage any changes within a team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Honours Degree in Prosthetics/Orthotics or equivalent qualification
- Current registration with Health and Care Professionals Council
- Member of BAPO
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience within the NHS or other Health Service provider. Minimum of 3 years of post-registration experience, including broad range experience within a variety of settings, including physical health
- Experience of leading a service at a senior level, minimum of 2 years / +/ - experienced clinician
- Experience of specific assessment and treatment techniques with a wide-ranging caseload
- Relevant experience of successful project management in specialist area
- Extensive experience of planning, prioritizing, organizing and monitoring all activities effectively within area of responsibility
- Successful track record of implementing change
Desirable
- Experience of liasing with a variety of stakeholder both internal and external
- Previous experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of clinical and technical information of available prosthetic componentry
- Knowledge of project management methodologies and a range of service improvement tools, techniques and change management theories
- Audit experience and knowledge of research principles
- Able to communicate complex or sensitive information to a wide range of people either as individuals or in groups
- Knowledge of and ability to apply relevant legislative frameworks and policies relating to care e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding, Consent to Treatment.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Highly self-motivated
- Is able to reflect on own clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
- Can prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations
- Can deal with conflict and use negotiation to manage any changes within a team
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
