Wheelchair Therapist | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2024 |
| Location: | Seaton Deleval, NE25 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6534489/319-6534489IO |
Summary
Northumbria Wheelchair Services is embarking on a new change and we are looking to recruit to our growing team. This is an exciting time for us as we have introduced a new structure within the service and are also recruiting a new clinical lead. Delivering care to residents across the Northumberland and North Tyneside area our service is located in recently purpose-built accommodation with excellent staff and patient facilities on the Northumbria manufacturing hub site in Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay. If you are a therapist looking for a new challenge and would like the opportunity to be part of this forward thinking team then this may be for you.
We currently have a full time vacancy for a band 5 Occupational therapist/Physiotherapist to work as a Wheelchair therapist. Please note, we would also happily consider a return to practice Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist for this post.
To manage your own caseload of clients who often present with complex needs, using advanced clinical reasoning to assess, prescribe, implement and evaluate the equipment provided.
As a band 5, you will be expected to carry out full assessments of the clients' wheelchair and postural needs, analysing their situation and the effect their illness or disability has on their lives.
You will be able to identify and select the most appropriate wheelchair service intervention options - balancing the complex needs of the suitability of equipment, client choice, risk, safety, independence, areas of conflict, eligibility, and cost effectiveness - making informed decisions with all concerned.
We welcome applicants who would be happy to be trained in wheelchair provision. Full training will be provided.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
· To analyse the results of each wheelchair assessment, consider a range of options, formulate professional judgements and organise provision of equipment.
· To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions for clients in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the interventions.
· Act appropriately in relation to clinical adverse incidents taking remedial action by alerting necessary professionals, complying with guidelines implemented by the Trust and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
· Manage a caseload of clients including adults and children.
· Undertake clinical wheelchair and seating assessments at clinic, within the clients home, residential or health care setting. This is to include assessments for
- Manual wheelchairs
- Specially adapted manual wheelchairs.
- Powered wheelchairs, including initial assessment only with regards to
- Suitability and criteria for provision of indoor/outdoor powered wheelchairs.
- Postural support and special seating.
- Pressure relieving cushions.
- Referred to senior staff for more detailed assessments.
· To analyse the results of the above assessments, consider a range of options, formulate professional judgements and organise provision of equipment.
· Set up, hand over and demonstrate equipment with a high degree of accuracy taking into account moving and handling regulations.
· To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions for clients in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of the interventions.
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Sep 2024
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