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Please see the attached Job Description for full details.
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 maintaining 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, and 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, maximising independence. Support the audit of patient outcomes.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Responsibility for People Management: 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. Ensure personnel files and paperwork are maintained. Escalate any particular difficulties to the attention of the Service Manager. Take part in the process of clinical supervision and support clinical supervision and reflective practice for team members.
2. Responsibility for Financial and/or Physical Resources: To be aware of budgetary constraints when planning and carrying out care and promote this within the team. Develop/maintain and manage the implementation of robust prescription guidelines to maximise budget for all patients based on individual needs. To be responsible for overseeing and monitoring and authorising prosthetic equipment and components and ensuring maintenance and repair is upheld.
3. Responsibility for Administration: 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. Maintain patient clinical records in accordance with HCPC policy and local guidelines. Report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents following Trust procedure.
4. Responsibility for People Who Use Our Services: To have joint clinical responsibility for the prosthetic profession within the organisation. To provide the lead prosthetic clinical input to the MDT. Give clinical and professional advice to the multi-disciplinary team regarding appropriate prosthetic provision for patients.
5. Responsibility for Implementation of Policy and/or Service Developments: 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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Health Care Provider
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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