Clinical Specialist (Wheelchair Service) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| 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.
Please refer to job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Jul 2025