Job summary
- Main area
- Prosthetic
- Grade
- 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 380-FR0588
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Disablement Services Centre Medway Hospital, Gillingham
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Prosthetic Technician
5
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Do you have technical skills and experience working with hand tools, light engineering equipment and materials? If so, we would like to hear from you.
We are a specialist service covering the whole of Kent, Medway and Bromley. *Please note: The Prosthetic Service is currently in the process of transferring to a different provider.
Our established facility offers a fully integrated service for our users and we pride ourselves on offering high-quality equipment and support.
You will work closely with the Lead Prosthetic and Clinical Support Technician and Lead Specialist Equipment Co-ordinator to provide and maintain a professional, enthusiastic and positive approach, ensuring continual professional development by way of Appraisal (IR), Continual Professional Development (CPD), training and regular 1-2-1 sessions.
Main duties of the job
You will be providing technical skills and support to ensure the highest quality prosthetic equipment is delivered to patients, through close liaison with the Consultant and his multi-disciplinary team.
Once experienced, you will undertake a mechanical repair service with patients, with access to clinical support.
You will be using tooling and machinery to understand the concepts of all common types of prosthetic hardware devices, their construction and assembly, including their function, limitations, maintenance and repair procedures, in accordance with manufacturer technical specifications.
And fabricating all types of prosthetic sockets to the manufacturer's technical specifications.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for Care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be working with the technical team and be offering technical skills to manufacture, repair and maintain prosthetic equipment, both within the workshop and in time, within patient-facing technical clinics.
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Education and qualifcation
Essential criteria
- Qualification achievement(s)
Desirable criteria
- Associated learning/achievements
Experience
Essential criteria
- Use of hand tools / manufacturing equipment
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a workshop environment
General supporting knowledge
Essential criteria
- H&S/M&H/PPE/COSHH, etc. - use and management
Desirable criteria
- Use of Microsoft and IT databases
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Hollamby
- Job title
- Lead Prosthetic and Clinical Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 833923
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