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; this post will support the Wolverhampton contract.
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
Manufacturing and adjusting prostheses/ orthoses
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.
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.
Works independently and follows policies, procedures and quality system manuals. Work ismanaged rather than supervised.
Make a positive contribution to service development, improvement and performance to ensure efficient and effective outcomes for colleagues and patients.
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 description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person Specification for full details of this vacancy.
Please note the vacancy will close once the gap is met.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and Person Specification for full details of this vacancy.
Please note the vacancy will close once the gap is met.
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- HND Level 5 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience acquired through formal training
- Relevant experience in a technical service offering support to clients with equipment
- Relevant experience of complex assembly with all major components and/or overhauling components
- Relevant experience of analyzing problems and solutions
Desirable
- Relevant experience in the production and finishing prostheses/ orthoses, both mechanical/ electronic hardware, and facsimile orthoses
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the range of componentry used within prosthetic/ orthotic services
- Skills of working in manufacturing environment, with good hand skills. Good use of hand tools (eg. drills, hammers etc.)
- Knowledge of Health & Safety and Risk Management
- 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.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Customer Service skills
- Willingness to undertake all relevant training to meet the requirements of enhance the role
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- HND Level 5 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience acquired through formal training
- Relevant experience in a technical service offering support to clients with equipment
- Relevant experience of complex assembly with all major components and/or overhauling components
- Relevant experience of analyzing problems and solutions
Desirable
- Relevant experience in the production and finishing prostheses/ orthoses, both mechanical/ electronic hardware, and facsimile orthoses
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the range of componentry used within prosthetic/ orthotic services
- Skills of working in manufacturing environment, with good hand skills. Good use of hand tools (eg. drills, hammers etc.)
- Knowledge of Health & Safety and Risk Management
- 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.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Customer Service skills
- 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.
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).
Additional information
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).
