Specialist Orthotist

Job summary

An opportunity has presented itself for an enthusiastic individual to work within the Podiatry and Orthotic Department. The post holder will join a growing team to provide orthotic clinical care to patients in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).

The successful candidate will join the Orthotic Team as Specialist Orthotist to work across CTM alongside the Clinical Lead for Orthotics and the commissioned provision. They will be an integral member of the orthotic team providing outpatient and inpatient care and contribute to ongoing service development, audit and quality improvement. The Orthotic Service provides outpatient and inpatient provision across Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB working with closely with podiatrists working in the Acute and MSK sub speciality.

The successful candidate will be based at Prince Charles Hospital however there will be the requirement to be able to work flexibly. The base could be modified to Bridgend with mutual agreement.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

The post holder will ensure a patient centred approach whilst working within professional guidelines to ensure clinical effectiveness for optimal care pathways.

Main duties of the job

They will hold a broad clinical caseload across hospital sites within the UHB. The caseload will include both outpatients and inpatients and may also include domiciliary visits to patients own homes, residential and nursing homes across the localities.

The post holder will have clinically autonomous input in the management of clinical cases, working within multi-disciplinary teams (MDT's) in relation to the assessment and provision of orthoses. This will include specialised clinics such as the high risk diabetic foot and paediatrics.

The post holder will be responsible for the safe provision of stock and bespoke orthotic devices. They will be responsible for ensuring prescription decisions are made with best clinical judgements in a cost effective manner to provide high quality and best value orthotic care.

The post holder will supervise support staff as necessary, take an active part in supervision of students and provide professional support for peers and colleagues outside of the orthotic team.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.