NHS Scotland
Appliance Officer - Orthotics
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Appliance Officer - Orthotics
About The Organisation
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
The Role
To provide a comprehensive administrative service within the department to Orthotists, Consultants, Associate Specialists, Registrars, Junior Doctors, Nurse Specialists and Physiotherapists.
In This Key Role, You Will
- Provide a high quality administrative service to the Head of Profession for Orthotics and his team, Nurse Specialist teams, Physiotherapists and Orthotics Contractors. To ensure efficiency in patient care.
- Respond to telephone and face to face enquiries from all staff groups, patients, relatives carers, providing information, directing and prioritising queries as appropriate, to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery.
- Responsible for managing out-patient waiting lists, ensuring that the patient management system information is accurate and up to date to ensure waiting time targets are achieved.
- Arranging appointments for the appropriate Orthotic clinic and arranging transport to facilitate the patient journey.
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What You'll Bring
- Understanding of a range of work procedures, all of which are non-routine, requiring an intermediate level of theoretical knowledge
- Expertise knowledge gained through experience of Government Prescription Charges and Exemption Categories.
- Expertise knowledge gained through experience of the range of administration procedures.
- Knowledge of software programmes
What We Offer
As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
- Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Annual incremental salary progression
- Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
- NHS discounts and more.
NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
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Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.
For informal discussion, please contact Robbie Rooney, Head Of Orthotics & Audiology on robbie.rooney@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Jessica Murphy, Recruitment Administrator on Jessica.Murphy@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Interested?
Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application
You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack
Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.
This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.
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