Senior Specialist Rehabilitation Engineer or Clinical Scientist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Mai 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | North Chailey, BN8 4JN |
| Cwmni: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7187635/150-MM1733-PC |
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A Vacancy at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Rehabilitation Engineering Service based at Chailey Clinical Services for a motivated team player to join the team in the role of Senior Specialist Rehabilitation Engineer.
This post is situated within a specialist paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering Service. The client group currently served have severe and complex physical disabilities and therefore require bespoke assistive technology (AT) solutions in order to undertake activities of daily living. The equipment has a clinical role in the care of the child or young person helping to support to reduce the progression of deformity in particular that associated with seating, standing and lying.
RES provides clinical support to the pupils of Chailey Heritage School and a large number of mainly paediatric outpatients referred from the Sussex area whose local services who cannot meet these clients’ needs.
You will be working in a team of Clinical Scientists, Rehabilitation Engineers, Technicians and administrate staff to design, develop, manufacture and modify assistive technology to support our clients with their posture and daily activities.
You will deliver high quality, client focused, specialist clinical assessment and prescription of assistive technology to children, young people or adults referred to the clinics and services at Chailey Clinical Services (CCS).
You will be required to identify suitable commercially available equipment or design, develop and manufacture equipment, or modify and adapt existing equipment to an agreed solution. A large portion of this role will involve the assessment for, design of, manufacture and delivery of custom moulded seating or custom equipment.
Your role will be to attend specialist clinics on and off site as a senior engineer and as part of a multidisciplinary team assess the client. In clinics you will provide specialist input.
You will provide a technical advisory role to other staff in the department, service, CCS and as appropriate outside agencies.
You will be part of the senior B7 team within the department and take on responsibilities and work as appropriate.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
The post holder will be expected :
• to provide additional specialist input in a range of clinics.
• to design, develop and manufacture equipment or modify and adapt existing equipment to an agreed solution.
• to effectively organise, prioritise and complete own workload and be efficient in the use of time and materials.
• to have excellent written and verbal communication skills to liaise with clients, their families and carers, other professionals and suppliers.
• to provide technical support to other team members including inspecting, approving and ensuring work completed within timescales
• to provideleadership within the RES team including supervision, service development, delegated responsibilities etc
• to support the organisation with the provision of multidisciplinary learning and training opportunities including
• work within Health & Safety requirements
• work within Quality Management system
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Rehabilitation Engineering Service based at Chailey Clinical Services for a motivated team player to join the team in the role of Senior Specialist Rehabilitation Engineer.
This post is situated within a specialist paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering Service. The client group currently served have severe and complex physical disabilities and therefore require bespoke assistive technology (AT) solutions in order to undertake activities of daily living. The equipment has a clinical role in the care of the child or young person helping to support to reduce the progression of deformity in particular that associated with seating, standing and lying.
RES provides clinical support to the pupils of Chailey Heritage School and a large number of mainly paediatric outpatients referred from the Sussex area whose local services who cannot meet these clients’ needs.
You will be working in a team of Clinical Scientists, Rehabilitation Engineers, Technicians and administrate staff to design, develop, manufacture and modify assistive technology to support our clients with their posture and daily activities.
You will deliver high quality, client focused, specialist clinical assessment and prescription of assistive technology to children, young people or adults referred to the clinics and services at Chailey Clinical Services (CCS).
You will be required to identify suitable commercially available equipment or design, develop and manufacture equipment, or modify and adapt existing equipment to an agreed solution. A large portion of this role will involve the assessment for, design of, manufacture and delivery of custom moulded seating or custom equipment.
Your role will be to attend specialist clinics on and off site as a senior engineer and as part of a multidisciplinary team assess the client. In clinics you will provide specialist input.
You will provide a technical advisory role to other staff in the department, service, CCS and as appropriate outside agencies.
You will be part of the senior B7 team within the department and take on responsibilities and work as appropriate.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
The post holder will be expected :
• to provide additional specialist input in a range of clinics.
• to design, develop and manufacture equipment or modify and adapt existing equipment to an agreed solution.
• to effectively organise, prioritise and complete own workload and be efficient in the use of time and materials.
• to have excellent written and verbal communication skills to liaise with clients, their families and carers, other professionals and suppliers.
• to provide technical support to other team members including inspecting, approving and ensuring work completed within timescales
• to provideleadership within the RES team including supervision, service development, delegated responsibilities etc
• to support the organisation with the provision of multidisciplinary learning and training opportunities including
• work within Health & Safety requirements
• work within Quality Management system
This advert closes on Monday 9 Jun 2025