Prosthetist

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST IS FIXED TERM FOR 12 MONTHS**

To provide a comprehensive service of assessment, diagnosis, treatment/appropriate management, provision of custom made medical devices to patients with amputation/s or congenital limb loss who require life long care, in a clinical environment.

To supervise and support Prosthetics students.

AFC Band 5 salary range £30, 229 - £37, 664 (based on experience)

WTE 37.5 Hours per week.

1 x 12 month Fixed term post
- Assessing patients’ prosthetic needs and, either alone or in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary clinic team, maintain/prescribe and provide prosthetic devices required to meet these needs.
- Supervise the manufacture and procurement of prosthetic devices prescribed
- Undertake basic technical manufacturing tasks
- Review patients’ prosthetic requirements to ensure the effectiveness and safety of devices provided.

We require an individual with good interpersonal and communication skills who can demonstrate that they can work well independantly and as part of a team.

Must be registered with HCPC.

The SMART Centre is one of 5 centres in Scotland (Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Inverness) providing Rehabilitation Technology Services and covers Lothian, Fife and the Borders (approx. 25% of Scotland’s population). These include Mobility and Postural Services (wheelchairs and special seating), Prosthetics, Orthotics, Bioengineering Services, a Disabled Living Centre and Gait Analysis Service. We are also one of two Centres in Scotland providing a national Specialist Prosthetics Service and we also provide a national Driving Assessment Service and Spinal Orthotics Service.

SMART is part of the Rehabilitation Service of the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership. The department has its own specialist workshops and stores on site. SMART workshops provide in-house manufacturing and (outsourced) modified medical devices across the range of activities mentioned above.

The Prosthetics service consists of the Head of Prosthetics and Orthotics Services, Prosthetics Team Lead, 6.3 (wte) Prosthetists. We currently have 3 in-house prosthetic technicians as well as 2 Modern Apprentice Orthotics and Prosthetics Technicians. We are currently using external companies to support some of our manufacture due to vacancies in our technical team.

We aim to deliver high quality patient centred care as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The successful applicants will be conducting a mixture of face to face and telephone/Near Me clinics, and will be supported by Senior Prosthetists.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact Gillian Burrage on 0131 446 4506.