Clinical Specialist (Wheelchair Service) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	30 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	30 July 2025
Location:	Liverpool, L3 4BL
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7282548/350-CC7282548

Summary

Liverpool Wheelchair Service is looking for enthusiastic and motivated Band 7 therapist to join our team. The successful candidate will provide assessment, provision of wheelchairs, postural support and pressure management to the most complex patients within the service.

The skills required for this post include practical problem-solving skills, and sound clinical reasoning skills. An effective team player with excellent organisational and communication skills required to work in a busy service.

The successful candidate will provide clinical specialist support across the team, engaging in clinical staff supervision, staff training and service development.

You will work alongside the B7 Clinical Leads to assist in the operational running the service, ensuring service objectives and goals are met.

You will undertake comprehensive assessments of complex patients with a variety of physical, cognitive and/or learning disabilities. A high level of understanding of the impact of these conditions, and identification of social and environmental issues that may impact on the final equipment recommendations is key to providing a holistic posture/pressure management solution with a wheelchair.

We are an innovative service with a goal of providing a high-quality service to our patients to achieve their mobility goals and enable their independence. We are looking for a forward-thinking therapist who will add to the team’s dynamic approach and be committed to future service development.

- Wheelchair assessment and provision and prescription of wheeled mobility, pressure care and postural support. 


- Management of complex caseloads. 


- Supporting the wider therapy team in the management of complex caseloads


- Complex postural assessment and provision of wheelchairs to support patients as part of a 24 postural care approach. 


- Support in development of B5 (static and rotational) therapists


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
• Provide care,adviceand guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.

• Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.

• Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in theappropriate setting.

• Ensure that the team provides ahigh-qualityservice to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.

• Ensure that teams work proactivelytodeliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

• Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.

• Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.


• Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

• Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.

• Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.

• Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.

• Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.

• Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.

• Practice autonomously anddemonstrateevidence based clinical decision making.

• Provide clinicalexpertiseand knowledge to others when managing complex andhighly complexsituations.

• Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex andhighly complexcare, drawing on specialist services asrequired.

• Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, whereappropriate.

• Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.

• Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.

• Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.

• Direct and support the management of complex andhighly complex, continuing care packages.

• Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the coreobjectivesof health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management oflong-termconditions and end of life/palliative care.

• Setobjectives, by which performance will bemonitored.

• Work with the Service Lead to deliver local based services, byparticipatingin meetings and communicating the outcomes to others.

• Provide reports to the service lead on activity asrequested.

• Activelyparticipatein policy and service development authoring protocols asrequired.

• Undertake clinical/service improvement audits.


• The post holder will utilise data and data tools (including databases) to produceappropriate monitoringreports on both patient care and service outcomes and produceappropriate communicationfor patients.

• Communicate at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health and social care professionals to provide best outcomes for patients/clients.

• Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements anddemonstratecritical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.

• Create an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered,evaluatedanddisseminated.

• Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.

• Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.

• Undertake the training and development of other clinicians.

• Monitor andmaintainstandards of patient/client care delivery. Includingmaintainingand monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping.
• Please refer to job description for more details.




This advert closes on Sunday 6 Jul 2025