Consult on complex cases via video call, supporting less experienced orthotists and students.
Value to your service: Prevents costly re-makes, improves patient outcomes. Boosts junior clinicians confidence and learning by ensuring senior experience is available even when lone working. This reduces the strain on permanent senior staff.
Represent your orthotic service via video call at complex MDT meetings for specialties like MSK Foot & Ankle, Diabetic Foot, and Paediatrics.
Value to your service: Provides high level clinical input to improve patient outcomes, secure appropriate referrals and build confidence in your service. All without the time or expense of travel to a hospital.
Conduct remote assessments using NHS approved platforms such as AccuRx or Attend Anywhere. Manage clinical notes, orders, onward referrals and GP letters using your services digital systems.
Value to your service: Patients can be booked in from across your nationwide clinics helping to reduce waiting lists in high demand areas. This will help meet RTT targets safeguarding patients, your performance and revenue.
Provide expert remote follow up, offering patients further explanation and ensuring their orthosis is working optimally, helping improve adherence and outcomes.
Value to your service: Enhances patient outcomes and satisfaction. Reduces avoidable face to face follow up appointments freeing up your clinicians time for new referrals.
Ensure referral pathways progress effectively to achieve RTT targets and KPIs.
Value to your service: Ensures the right patient sees the right clinician at the right time, improving patient outcomes, maximising your team's output and meeting contract demands. Supports operational efficiency and profitability.
Act as a Preceptor for graduates, those returning to practice and overseas trained practitioners, particularly those unfamiliar with NHS systems.
Value to your service: Accelerates clinical competency, improves staff retention, ensures a high standard of care and protects your service quality.
Facilitate PDRs and clinical supervision in line with your service and NHS policy and strategic goals.
Value to your service: Frees up senior management time, ensures staff feel supported and valued and aligns professional development with HCPC standards and your service objectives.
Assist with resolving patient complaints, queries, and concerns in line with NHS and service policy.
Value to your service: Reduces clinical risk, enhances service quality, protects your services's reputation, saves management time, and ensures compliance to standards.
Undertake clinical audits e.g. notes, outcome measures, peer review, patient satisfaction.
Value to your service: Reduces clinical risk, steers service improvement and provides evidence for CQC readiness and NHS tender bids.
Review and develop Policy, SOP and patient information materials.
Value to your service: Ensures HCPC and regulatory compliance across your service, standardises best practice and elevates professional standards.
BSc(Hons) Prosthetics and Orthotics, 1st class, University of Salford.
Over 13 years of experience conducting complex orthotic assessments and providing effective prescriptions for a broad range of conditions.
Proven track record representing Orthotics at MDT clinics including MSK foot and ankle, paediatrics within SEN schools and hospitals, diabetic care, neuro-rehab and intermediate care.
Substantial experience as a Senior Orthotist deputising for a Clinical Lead. Responsibilities included triaging referrals, mentoring, facilitating PDRS and education.
Former governance lead, initiating audits, developing policies and procedures, and creating patient information materials to enhance service quality and safety.
Proven ability to quickly integrate into new teams and workflows across various NHS and private services. Quick to learn EHR systems and protocols while maintaining high standards of patient care.
A great communicator skilled at using motivational techniques to negotiate care plans, ensure patient compliance, and educate patients and carers. Passionate about inspiring patient confidence to improve engagement and outcomes.
Actively broadening expertise through locum roles to understand varied service operations. Formally developing leadership capabilities through the completion of the BAPO Leadership Program.
I look forward to exploring how we can work together. Please fill in the form below or find me on LinkedIn.