SCOPE AND RANGE
The role will work within the scope of the HCPC professional code of practice and Livewell Southwest policies. Also working collaboratively and maintain key working relationships with managers, service heads and leads. Within the role you will be expected to work with more complex patients providing holistic evidence-based care, assessing, planning, implementing the treatment requirements of the practice population. Lead and participate in the management of enhanced assessments such as Pre-amputation consultations.
Promoting and supporting people in their care and treatment to help them manage their own health and wellbeing, maximise independence. Support the audit of patient outcomes.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Responsibility for People Management
o Provide line management to a variety of Prosthetists within the team as well as 2 Specialist Physiotherapists and support them in their line management of Prosthetist, Specialist Nurse and Assistants. This includes absence approval and management, career development, training programmes, conducting appraisals, performance monitoring, 1st level grievance or discipline, reorganising staff or clinics to provide adequate cover and generally resolving queries e.g. leave entitlement, vacancies etc.
o Ensure personnel files and paperwork are maintained. Escalate any particular difficulties to the attention of the Service Manager.
o Take part in the process of clinical supervision and support clinical supervision and reflective practice for team members.
o Lead on recruitment and selection of new staff, including being the lead on interview panel.
o In the absence of the service manager, be responsible for the day-to-day management of the team and patient care provided to the agreed local and professional standards.
2. Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources
o To be aware of budgetary constraints when planning and carrying out care and promote this within the team.
o Develop/maintain and manage the implementation of robust prescription guidelines to maximise budget for all patients based on individual needs.
o To be responsible for overseeing and monitoring and authorising of prosthetic equipment and components and ensuring maintenance and repair is upheld.
o Ensure safe and efficient use of stock and equipment. Ensure equipment is checked appropriately. Report any equipment defects. Advise stores person if low stock noted.
o Exercise a duty of care in relation to the use of the organisations equipment and resources in a cost-effective manner.
3. Responsibility for administration
o Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation in line with legal and service requirements as an autonomous practitioner and to communicate assessment and other clinic outcomes to appropriate persons in the form of reports and letters.
o Maintain patient clinical records in accordance with HCPC policy and local guidelines.
o Report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents following Trust procedure.
o Support the Service manager in the recording of accurate clinical activity data for NHSE data capture.
o Ensure line management and appraisal documentation is completed for the team members for which they hold manager responsibility.
4. Responsibility for people who use our services
o To have joint clinical responsibility for the prosthetic profession within the organisation.
o To provide the lead prosthetic clinical input to the MDT.
o Give clinical and professional advice to the multi-disciplinary team regarding appropriate prosthetic provision for patients.
o Accept referrals from medical and healthcare professionals and undertake clinical assessment and examination of patients to provide suitable highly specialist prosthetic clinical-technical prescriptions for patients with a wide range of presentations including complex patients.
o To draft, consult upon and complete clinical procedures, protocols, guidelines and policies that will support evidence based or best practice for the prosthetic profession.
5. Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments
o To work with the risk management team service manager and workshop manager in the analysis of relevant clinical incidents across the profession and implementing learning from outcomes.
o Develop, review and audit guidelines/ protocols/ policies for specific aspects of own service in line with NICE guidance, best practice Guidance and professional forums and support implementation into practice ensuring the clinical practice reflects national and local drivers.
o To support the operational managers with the ongoing review and evaluation of the services skill mix and establishment at a strategic level, developing and implementing innovative models of service delivery in collaboration with locality managers, professional leads and others.
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