Liverpool Wheelchair Service are looking for two enthusiastic and motivated Band 3 Wheelchair Service Support Workers to join our team. The successful candidate will provide support to enable the assessment and provision of wheelchairs and pressure management to clients within the Liverpool GP population.
We are a friendly and supportive multi disciplinary team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Clinical Engineers, Assistant Practitioners, warehouse operatives and administrators.
You will work alongside the therapists to support the patient journey through the service. This will include supporting a mixture of clinics and visits in the community.
The skills required for this post include being proactive, caring and being an effective team player with excellent organisational and communication skills required to work in a busy service.
We are predominantly a clinic based service but also see patients in other environments such as schools, hospitals, and their own home. We assess and prescribe manual wheelchairs, active user wheelchairs and electric powered chairs, along with posture/ pressure management and specialist seating systems.
* Supporting the wheelchair therapists and clinical engineers in the wheelchair assessment and provision and prescription of wheeled mobility, pressure care and postural support.
* Ensuring clinics are set up and ready for assessments and equipment is ready for visits.
* Supporting with the moving and handling of patients using a variety of transfer aids including hoists.
* Supporting therapists on joint visits in the community, the service have a fleet of vans to enable to delivery of equipment. Candidates will be required to drive the vans as part of their role.
* Supporting patients through the clinic process and completion of outcome measures and information gathering.
* Handover of equipment under the supervision/ direction of a therapist/ clinical engineer.
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.
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