About this role
Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic band 7 bank Orthotist to help support our in-house orthotics department to be able to wort flexibly to cover at short notice sickness or extended leave.
The service provides both inpatient and out patient interventions, specialist clinics which include complex Paediatrics services, high risk diabetes multi-disciplinary foot clinics and rehabilitation clinics. We offer a dynamic service with a commitment to the delivery of high quality patient care. We offer the following:
A flexible and supportive environment.
Good collaborative multi-professional working.
Main duties of the job
To provide a full and comprehensive Clinical Orthotic service to the Trust and external agencies as required.
To provide an extended scope/clinical specialist role in Diabetes or Paediatrics.
To participate in clinical audit, research/development and teaching activities as required.
To maintain a personal clinical caseload, including all areas of Orthotics, undertaking highly complex clinical assessments and examination of patients with a broad range of disabilities, to provide suitable highly specialist orthotic clinical-technical prescriptions including highly complex and paediatric cases.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To provide a full and comprehensive Clinical Orthotic service to the Trust and external agencies as required.
To provide an extended scope/clinical specialist role in Diabetes or Paediatrics To participate in clinical audit, research/development and teaching activities as required. To maintain a personal clinical caseload, including all areas of Orthotics, undertaking highly complex clinical assessments and examination of patients with a broad range of disabilities, to provide suitable highly specialist orthotic clinical-technical prescriptions including highly complex and paediatric cases.
Communications and Working Relationships:
To establish and maintain effective communication with external suppliers to ensure a timely supply of quality orthoses that are value for money. The post holder is to use excellent negotiation and counselling skills to ensure the effective communication of highly complex, highly sensitive and emotional information and to overcome barriers to understanding. The communication will be assisted by the post holder having developed knowledge of previous outcomes from similar complex clinical cases they have treated in the past. The post holder will receive highly complex information and is to provide highly complex and highly contentious information to consultants and other healthcare professionals. The post holder will need to effectively communicate specialist knowledge of NICE guidelines and up-to-date research. The post holder will communicate with external companies and manufacturers on the individual design of bespoke orthoses to ensure effective provision of orthoses within the minimum number of patient episodes. This information will include the sharing of highly developed specialist knowledge in the area of material science, mechanics, fabrication methods and manufacturing processes. The post holder will report as appropriate with the Podiatry & Orthotics Manager order to ensure effective Clinical Governance and assist in the implementation of long-term strategies in line with NHS guidelines and National Service Frameworks. The post holder will be the clinical lead specialist in the area of Orthotics for the Diabetic patient and will therefore need to present to large numbers of healthcare professionals including consultants on clinical matters, research and developments. The post holder will provide verbal, visual and written information, explanation and highly specialised clinical advice to the patient and / or carers at every stage of orthosis provision, obtaining informed consent when necessary. The post holder will be able to negotiate care plans with patients and carers using motivational and supportive skills to overcome any differences in opinions and understanding to ensure co-operation and compliance with treatment plan. This communication will include educating the patient and carer on aspects of their medical condition and design and function of the orthosis that is to be provided. The post holder will report patient adverse incidents that relate to the provision of Orthotics to the Trust and to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to maintain patient safety and engage in national reporting and monitoring procedures for specialised medical devices. The post holder will maintain effective working relationships with other departments to enable improvements to multidisciplinary working that crosses department boundaries.
The post holder will communicate effectively with orthotics staff and support staff to motivate and encourage staff development and to ensure seamless running of the Orthotics Service The post holder will ensure excellent written and verbal communications are maintained with patients, carers, relatives and members of the health and social care teams The post holder will maintain excellent clinical notes as a form of written communications in line with national guidelines. Physical Effort
There is an on-going need to bend kneel and crawl when assessing patients particularly when assessing patients feet.
Approximately three times a day the post holder will need to perform highly skilled casting techniques in complex clinical situations. This can involve holding the weight of a limb whilst casting that can take up to 40 minutes.
It is necessary for the post holder to operate heavy equipment on a daily basis, including workshop equipment and diagnostic/measurement equipment. The workshop equipment in particular can require the application of force to operate it when performing mechanical and technical adjustments to orthoses
Moving patients on a daily basis can include hoisting, moving patients in the bed and moving patients from sitting to standing
The post holder will need to be physically able to cope with a frequent requirement for moderate physical activity
Mental Effort
Mental effort and concentration when examining and assessing patients is sustained for entire clinics which can be up to 4 hours long and happen on a
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Bsc (Hons) Prosthetics and Orthotics or equivalent. Plus additional post grad training, experience and knowledge to masters level or equivalent experience Registered with Health Professions Council Driving Licence and own vehicle essential
Desirable
Preferably a member of BAPO
Experience Essential
Post-registration experience, providing a broad range of experience in provision of orthotics for orthopaedic, neurology, paediatrics and diabetes. Experience of line management is desirable Supervision of student Orthotists and junior Orthotists
Skills Essential
A specialist knowledge across a range of orthotic practices, routine and non-routine, requiring expertise within the field of orthotics Knowledge and extensive experience of management of patients with a wide range of complex pathology requiring orthotic assessment and provision. Knowledge and experience of assessment and management of paediatric patients, diabetic patients and complex orthopaedic patients Attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to orthotics CPD portfolio Managerial knowledge and experience
Personal Qualities Essential
An ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information An ability to empathise and reassure An ability to persuade, motivate and negotiate An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding An ability to contribute to the clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants An ability to prioritise and organise own workload An ability to delegate work to junior staff, assistants and students
Desirable
An ability to cope with a range of complex options, find solutions, analyse, compare and decide on appropriate course of action
Other Essential
Demonstrate enthusiasm and a desire to achieve Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within orthotics Demonstrate a professional attitude Able to take a team leader role in the absence of more senior staff An ability to frequently concentrate on patient assessments and treatments An ability to cope with occasional exposure to distressing/emotional situations An ability to work as part of 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.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address Cape Road Clinic
Cape Road
Warwick
CV34 4JP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)