Prosthetic Technician

Are you caring & compassionate? Are you flexible and dynamic? If so, we would love you to join our Prosthetic clinical team.

As a member of our close knit team, you will have excellent communication and organisational skills, managing your workload, working as part of a technical and clinical team.

The role involves the fabrication, maintenance, assembly and repair of bespoke prosthetic prescriptions for amputees and patients with congenital limb absence and deformities. The role involves actioning the technical instruction from the prosthetists and undertaking duties directed by the workshop manager.

You will use hand tools and stand-alone machinery such as routers, linishers and band saws and will use techniques such as draping of thermoplastic materials and lamination of sockets using various resins and materials such as carbon and glass fibres.

You will work responsibly to always ensure a clean and safe working environment and will ensure that accurate information, and logging of parts and materials used, is diligently recorded.

You will ensure that all of your work is carried out in accordance with Health and Safety Regulations and Procedures.

As an integral member of our Prosthetic clinical team, you will play a vital role in the manufacture, modification and repair of prostheses.

You will be a great communicator, engaging with, and carrying out the technical instruction of the prosthetists and specialist technicians in order that prostheses are manufactured, modified and repaired to the optimum standard.

You will do this by using the appropriate tools supplied in the workshop, lamination and machine rooms, and with the appropriate materials in accordance with Health and Safety regulations and procedures.

You will produce new sockets and limbs (construction/modification) for our patients, using the appropriate tools supplied in the workshop, lamination and machine rooms, and with the appropriate materials in accordance with Health and Safety regulations and procedures.

You will fabricate bespoke sockets to all sites of amputation and congenital deformity/absence using a wide range of materials.

You will fabricate all types of modular lower and upper limb prostheses in accordance with appropriate technical manuals.

You will manufacture complete, or elements of bespoke handcrafted conventional prostheses to the prescription of the prosthetist using a variety of processes.

You will also fabricate cosmetic foams.

During the course of your work, you will record and maintain accurate information on the bespoke SMRC and Trust recognised systems.

Preston SMRC (Specialist Mobility & Rehabilitation Centre) is the North West's Enhanced War Veteran Prosthetic Rehabilitation Centre - one of only 9 Centres chosen in England.

At the SMRC we are totally focused on ‘Quality of Care’ and are proud to be long term, established recipients of the Customer Service Excellence Award (previously Charter Mark). We are also accredited to the ISO-9001:2015 quality standard.

The purpose-built, bespoke facilities at the centre include a full clinical suite required for examination and treatment of patients. The SMRC also has a fully equipped specialist rehabilitation exercise area.

The unit is fully supported by the Royal Preston Hospital and has links with outpatient services such as Pharmacy and Radiology.

The department supports a full multidisciplinary team including a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, Specialist Physiotherapists, Specialist Occupational Therapists, Senior Nursing Sisters, Assistant Practitioners, Senior Health Care Assistants, a Psychologist, a Physical Training Instructor, Prosthetists, Orthotists, Technicians and Rehabilitation Engineers.

We have close links with the Department of Vascular Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Radiology and Diabetology at the Royal Preston Hospital.

The centre benefits from an on-site staff car park and a catering outlet.

To produce new sockets and limbs (construction/modification) for our patients, using the appropriate tools supplied in the workshop, lamination and machine rooms, and with the appropriate materials in accordance with Health and Safety regulations and procedures.

To fabricate bespoke sockets to all sites of amputation and congenital deformity/absence using a wide range of materials.

To fabricate all types of modular lower and upper limb prostheses in accordance with appropriate technical manuals.

To manufacture complete, or elements of bespoke handcrafted conventional prostheses to the prescription of the prosthetist using a variety of processes.

To fabricate cosmetic foams.

To record and maintain accurate information on the bespoke SMRC and Trust recognised systems.

To carry out the technical instruction of the prosthetists and specialist technicians in order that prostheses are manufactured, modified and repaired to the optimum standard.