Fracture Liaison Service Practitioner

1. We have an exciting opportunity in developing an exciting service in Hywel Dda University Health Board.
2. The post holder will provide a quality service by practicing as a highly specialist autonomous practitioner.
3. This post is a Fixed Term/ Secondment until 01/07/2026 due to funding.

Contract: 24 months (Fixed Term/ Secondment Until 01/07/2026 due to funding)

We have an exciting opportunity in developing an exciting service in Hywel Dda University Health Board. The Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) closes the care gap for fracture patients, by successfully and cost-effectively case-finding patients with fragility fractures who are at risk of osteoporosis. Over three million people in the UK have osteoporosis and these people are at a substantially increased risk of fragility fractures.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership in the delivery of the Fracture Liaison Service within Hywel Dda University Health Board. They will lead on aspects of the delivery plan for the specialty with the support the Clinical Lead for Bone Health for Hywel Dda. This post is opened to a variety of disciplines, for example AHP’s, Nurses, Pharmacists and Physician Associates.

This post is a Fixed Term/ Secondment until 01/07/2026 due to funding. If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a quality service by practicing as a highly specialist autonomous practitioner. This will involve autonomously managing a varied patient caseload where the post holder is required to plan, modify and carry out complex assessment, diagnosis and intervention, demonstrating autonomous clinical judgments where expert opinion differs due to an ambiguous or absent evidence base.

Define a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessments, including interpretation of diagnostic procedures and physical signs and symptoms. Assess, develop, implement and modify highly specialist programmes of care and treatment to meet the needs of clients underpinned by current evidence-based practice and national guidance. This will include identifying and advising medical colleagues on the need for further intervention and will require physical skills to carry out patient examinations and interventions safely.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices (six of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;

Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.