Prosthetic Technician

Integrated Care System; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Gillingham is seeking a Prosthetic Technician to deliver high-quality prosthetic equipment and support patients. The ideal candidate should have experience with hand tools and manufacturing environments. Join a dedicated team focused on providing exemplary care and technical services in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Use of hand tools and manufacturing equipment.
• Experience in a workshop environment.
• Knowledge of H&S/M&H/PPE/COSHH.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical skills to manufacture prosthetic equipment.
• Repair and maintain prosthetic equipment.
• Work with the technical team in patient-facing clinics.

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Prosthetic Technician

The closing date is 24 August 2025

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.

About us

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 strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

Job 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

• Qualification achievement(s)
• Associated learning/achievements

Experience

• Use of hand tools / manufacturing equipment
• Experience in a workshop environment

General supporting knowledge

• H&S/M&H/PPE/COSHH, etc. - use and management
• Use of Microsoft and IT databases

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Disablement Services Centre Medway Hospital, Gillingham

Disablement Services Centre Medway Hospital, Gillingham