Band 4 Podiatry workshop Technician

Job summary

The podiatry workshop technician role is an integral part of the podiatry treatment provision for patients across Birmingham. Although the role is not direct patient facing you will be responsible for the manufacture of bespoke insoles, in shoe and casted devices to support with the treatment of foot and ankle pathology for both orthopaedic conditions and for high risk foot conditions.

The post holder will expected to be responsible for the training of mechanical skills to peers and under/ post graduate trainees / apprentices as part of their role.

Main duties of the job

• The workshop technician will be required to work independently in a well-equipped lab using hand and machine tools and standard workshop machinery (grinder milling machine, grinder finisher) to fabricate, construct and modify in shoe devices and footwear additions.

• The workshop technician will produce bespoke orthotics and simple insoles, and attend face to face client based clinics for external footwear additions and bespoke appliance fittings.

• The workshop technician will be required to manufacture bespoke casted devices via CAD CAM or heat moulding materials with intrinsic and extrinsic additions before machine finishing. Manufacture bespoke non casted simple insoles using a variety of synthetic, polypropylene and foam based materials cut to fit and machine finished. Modify prefab orthotic bases to produce orthotic appliances and modify existing orthotic appliances where required or directed by the podiatrist.

• Provide orthotic material and appliance manufacture information to podiatry clinicians where required.

• The workshop technician will be required to complete administrative duties, booking in/out of appliances, maintenance of stock and daily safe running of the appliance lab via COSHH checks and compliance with The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)

• Contribute to research and development of appliance manufacture and material development/ procurement.

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BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.