East Sussex Wheelchair Services B5 OT/PT
- NHS
- Part Time
- Eastbourne
- 25658.00 - 28000.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join the East Sussex Wheelchair Service at Ross Care. Supporting people of all ages across East Sussex, the service provides mobility and seating solutions that help individuals maintain independence and quality of life.
This rewarding role is ideal for newly qualified clinicians or those seeking a new Band 5 opportunity. Full role-specific training will be provided.
As an autonomous wheelchair clinician, you will manage referrals and a diverse caseload of service users with physical, cognitive, and learning disabilities. You will carry out comprehensive assessments across a range of settings including clinics, homes, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and community environments to identify mobility, postural, comfort, and pressure management needs. Using sound clinical reasoning, you will prescribe appropriate wheelchairs, seating systems, and pressure-relieving equipment, taking into account each individual's medical, social, and environmental circumstances.
Main duties of the job
Main duties
Maintain accurate clinical records, complete risk assessments, obtain informed consent, and communicate assessment outcomes and recommendations to service users, carers, and healthcare professionals. Provide equipment handover, fitting, education, and training to ensure safe and effective use.
Work independently in a variety of settings, including lone working in the community, while adhering to safeguarding, health and safety, and organisational policies. Identify and report safeguarding concerns, equipment defects, incidents, and risks in line with governance procedures.
Demonstrate strong manual handling skills, including lifting, transporting, adjusting, and fitting wheelchairs and equipment. Travel regularly between locations and safely transport equipment using company vehicles.
Maintain professional registration and accountability through continuous professional development, clinical supervision, evidence-based practice, and mandatory training. Contribute to audits, service improvement initiatives, research activities, and quality assurance processes.
Build effective relationships with colleagues, service users, carers, and partner agencies, supporting multidisciplinary working and high-quality patient-centred care while contributing to organisational objectives, service development, and continuous improvement.
About us
About Us
Ross Care provides clinically led, high-quality wheelchair services on behalf of the NHS. Our friendly teams include OTs, Physiotherapists and Rehabilitation Engineers, delivering services for all age groups.
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 making a real difference to the lives of those who matter most our patients and their families.
Culture and Values
Ross Care is a values-led organisation where people come first. While demand can 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 help shape service delivery.
Career Development and Support
We provide a clear career pathway designed to help you grow with us. Clinical supervision and CPD opportunities are embedded at all levels, alongside strong line management support.
We offer a wide range of learning opportunities, including apprenticeships and training programmes. Many 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 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 ...
