Dudley/Solihull Wheelchair Services B6 OT/PT
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Location: | Brierley Hill, DY51TA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0453-25-0003 |
Summary
Post-registration experience working with patients with long-term and deteriorating medical conditions. Demonstrate strategies for organising own workload. Demonstrate a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet competing priorities. Demonstrate skill development and critical analysis of skill gaps. Confident in the use of computers with knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office. Good communication skills, both written and verbal; positive interpersonal skills with an ability to community appropriately with colleagues, other professionals, carers and service users. Ability to communicate sensitive information in written and verbal forms to service users, other professionals and in-house staff. Knowledge of a range of medical conditions (e.g. respiratory, neuro, orthopaedic), their management and implications for wheelchair prescription or other intervention. Effective strategies to cope with a variety of distressing situations, including challenging behaviour from service users. Ability to work under pressure. Demonstrate understanding of risk assessment and management within the healthcare environment. Demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding, including how to identify potential safeguarding situations, how to report them internally and ensure action within the MDT. Knowledge of legal issues (e.g. data protection, child protection, health and safety, vulnerable adults, human rights etc.). Demonstrate an understanding of health and safety responsibilities and compliance. Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance requirements. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of moving and handling techniques and procedures. Understanding of information governance and data protection issues. Demonstrate an understanding of managing diversity with the local populations and workforce. Understanding of multi-cultural issues. Demonstrate strategies for involving service users and carers in clinical decisions, ensuring all feedback is acknowledged. Full UK driving licence and a willingness to drive Ross Care vehicles. An ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions, such as weather, exposure to unpleasant environments, bodily fluids, pets and other unspecified hazards.