Employer Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type NHS
Site Artificial Limb and Appliance Service. Rookwood Hospital
Town Llandaff, Cardiff
Salary £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 28/04/2025 23:59
Band 8a
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Board in the UK, employing over 16,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”. We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board’s Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic objectives; Putting People First, Providing Outstanding Quality, Delivering in the Right Places, and Acting for the Future. We aspire to deliver outstanding care and treatment for people when they need it, where they need it; care that compares well with the best in the world, but to do so, we need to transform how we deliver services over the next decade and beyond.
We are a values-driven organisation and our goals will only be realised if our values are at the heart of everything we do. Created by colleagues, patients and their families and carers, our values are:
* We are kind and caring
* We are respectful
* We have trust and integrity
* We take personal responsibility
OUR REGION:
Wales has much to offer with miles of stunning coastline, UNESCO world heritage sites and beautiful countryside. Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, has something for everyone. It is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Job overview
The post holder will clinically lead the Prosthetics Service for Artificial Limb and Appliances Services (ALAS), and will have a clinically autonomous input relating to the management of highly complex clinical cases, working within multi-disciplinary teams (MDT’s) in relation to the assessment and provision of prostheses.
The post holder will be an integral member of the senior management team and will contribute to ongoing service development, integration and redesign through the demonstration of expert clinical knowledge.
The post holder will provide effective leadership, setting, monitoring and maintaining professional standards within the service area. They will work collaboratively to manage complaints and lead clinical contribution in Clinical Governance within service area and to directorate level.
The post holder will be responsible for the formulation and implementation of individualised highly specialised clinical management programmes using highly specialised clinical reasoning skills and integration of expert knowledge of evidenced based practice to autonomously assess and diagnose patients across a range of patient groups including those with highly complex needs.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
* To be professionally responsible for the provision of the prosthetics service for patients in South East Wales.
* Line manage the day-to-day complex activities of the prosthetics clinical staff ensuring effective use of professional skills and resources.
* To autonomously assess patients with a diverse range of medical, musculoskeletal and neurological conditions, using appropriate diagnostic techniques, skills and tools and develop a personalised treatment plan including prescription, manufacture and provision of appropriate prosthesis.
* Analyse and interpret a range of highly complex clinical information in order to determine the most appropriate prosthetic management, including patients with high risk of pressure damage.
* To ensure that the specialist Prosthetic service delivered is evidence based and under regular review to establish whether it is meeting the needs of patients in line with strategic direction.
* To identify and understand the implications of national clinical guidelines and policies and, where necessary, assist in the development local clinical guidelines which ensure that the Prosthetic service meets ongoing clinical governance requirements.
* To manage and partake in the implementation of policies, standards and procedures and monitor these by means of auditing systems.
* To undertake an area of clinical research relevant to the Prosthetic Service.
* To lead the prosthetics Service and the provision of Prosthetic products across South East Wales.
Working for our organisation
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current Registration with HCPC
* Post graduate education to Masters or Masters Accredited Level in specialist area
* Management or leadership qualification
* Research/ Audit knowledge/ experience
* Experience of initiating and implementing change within a team environment
* Membership BAPO
Experience
* Post registration and relevant experience in highly specialist area/ several years of practice at senior prosthetic level
* Experience of working in an NHS environment with in depth knowledge of clinical services Staff management and managing a team
* Ability to plan and organise the work of individuals and team to support the clinical rotation programme and to provide adequate service cover, ability to organise staff timetables and student placements
* Good interpersonal and communication skills necessary for influencing in a multi-professional forum
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where diversity is celebrated.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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