Specialist Orthotist - Bridgend, United Kingdom - Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Description
An opportunity has presented itself for an enthusiastic individual to work within the Podiatry and Orthotic Department.The post holder will join a growing team to provide orthotic clinical care to patients in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB).
The appointment will join the Orthotic Team as Specialist Orthotist to work across CTM alongside the Clinical Lead for Orthotics and the commissioned provision.
They will be an integral member of the orthotic team providing outpatient and inpatient care and contribute to ongoing service development, audit and quality improvement.
The Orthotic Service provides outpatient and inpatient provision across Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB working with closely with podiatrists working in the Acute and MSK sub speciality.
The post holder will ensure a patient centred approach whilst working within professional guidelines to ensure clinical effectiveness for optimal care pathways.
The caseload will include both outpatients and inpatients and may also include domiciliary visits to patients own homes, residential and nursing homes across the localities.
The post holder will have clinically autonomous input in the management of clinical cases, working within multi-disciplinary teams (MDT's) in relation to the assessment and provision of orthoses.
The post holder will be responsible for the safe provision of stock and bespoke orthotic devices.
They will be responsible for ensuring prescription decisions are made with best clinical judgements in a cost effective manner to provide high quality and best value orthotic care.
The post holder will supervise support staff as necessary, take an active part in supervision of students and provide professional support for peers and colleagues outside of the orthotic team.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.
Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs:
Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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