Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic B6 Therapist to join our small, friendly wheelchair service team. This role involves providing assessments and prescription of wheelchair equipment to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred care.
Working alongside an experienced Clinical team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring eligible service users receive the equipment they need to meet their mobility and postural requirements.
The role is primarily based at Dudley and Solihull Wheelchair Clinics, but travel to schools, hospitals, care homes, and service users' homes is required. Occasional visits to other Ross Care locations may also be necessary.
You will receive line management support from a B7 Therapist with additional management support from our Clinical Lead. The Team have a weekly meeting for information sharing and peer support. Training for the role will be provided and there is an on-going commitment to learning and development, including PDR/PDP and CPD.
Main duties of the job
Providing clinical input to the wheelchair services, working closely with service users, their families and carers and the multi-disciplinary teams supporting service users.
Work
as an autonomous practitioner, managing a caseload including complex service
users.
Demonstrate
clinical competence, effectiveness and best practice in all areas of clinical
service delivery, including -
Triage.
Duty activities.
Clinical interventions, including assessment
of mobility, posture and pressure care needs, prescription, review, and
handover/set up of prescribed equipment, demonstrating evidence of service
user involvement and collaboration in care planning.
Documentation, ensuring compliance with agreed
record keeping systems and standards.
Caseload management.
Use of outcome measures.
Medical device management.
Take
responsibility for maintaining safe clinic environments.
Safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
with whom the service comes into contact.
Carry
out physical/postural assessments and interventions which may involve
kneeling, squatting, crouching, bending, twisting and maintaining static or
awkward postures for short periods of time.
Lift,
carry or adjust wheelchairs and other equipment, potentially several times a
day on a daily basis.
About us
About us
Ross Care provide clinically lead, high-quality wheelchair services on behalf of the NHS. Our friendly teams include OTs, Physiotherapists and Rehabilitation Engineers, providing services for all age ranges.
We operate across 40 regions in England and Wales, supporting over 400,000 wheelchair users each year and covering 45% of the population. We take great pride in the role we play in making a real difference in the lives of those who matter most - our patients and their families.
Culture and Values
Ross Care are a values-led organisation where people come first and whilst demand can often be high, our commitment to delivering high-quality care never wavers.
We foster an environment where every team member is included, supported and empowered to contribute ideas and shape how we deliver services.
Career Development and Support
We provide a mature career pathway designed to help you grow with us and clinical supervision and CPD opportunities are embedded at all levels. We offer opportunity, structure, encouragement and excellent line management support.
We offer a wide range of learning opportunities, including apprenticeships and training programmes. Many of our team members progress into new roles within the organisation, thanks to our strong grow your own culture.
Our Commitment to Sustainability
We take our environmental responsibilities seriously - tracking our carbon footprint, setting measurable targets, and continuously seeking new ways to reduce environmental impact.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential
- 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 IT 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.
Additional
Essential
- HCPC registration.
- Enhanced DBS Clearance.
- 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.
Desirable
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc or Diploma in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
Experience
Essential
- 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 IT 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.
Additional
Essential
- HCPC registration.
- Enhanced DBS Clearance.
- 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.
Desirable
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or the Royal College of Occupational Therapists
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
