Clinical Lead for Wheelchair Services - Band 7
Make a meaningful impact by shaping a highquality,patientcentred Wheelchair Service.This role provides expert clinical leadership and governance to ensure thatadults and children receive safe, effective, and personalised wheelchair andspecialist seating provision. You will lead the service in deliveringcomprehensive assessments and evidencebased interventions for manual andpowered wheelchairs, ensuring all practice aligns with BSW ICB eligibilitycriteria, national standards, and local commissioning requirements. Throughyour leadership, the service will deliver excellence, innovation, and improvedoutcomes for every service user.
Main duties of the job
Job Responsibilities
* Lead the development and delivery of clinical pathways and standards to ensure a consistent, high quality approach across the service.
* Provide advanced clinical expertise in postural management, complex seating, pressure care, and risk management, supporting colleagues with complex decision making.
* Ensure patients receive timely and fair access to the service across the BSW area, meeting internal waiting time targets (aligned with RTT principles) and other key performance indicators.
* Work closely with service leaders, rehabilitation engineers, technical staff, community and acute teams, suppliers, and commissioners to drive continuous quality improvement and achieve better outcomes for service users.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and well being services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
Job responsibilities
As a Clinical Lead, you will be part of our valued team in our Wheelchair Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* £47,810 - £54,710 FTE Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical well being from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
* Qualified Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist with a recognised diploma or degree.
* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
* Membership with the relevant professional body, such as the Royal College of Occupational Therapists or the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
Experience and Skills
* Experience working in a Wheelchair Service, or a closely related specialist clinical area.
* Experience supervising, mentoring, or coaching junior staff or assistants.
* Good understanding of clinical governance, including audit, risk management, and contributing to staff education.
* Proven ability to deliver a wide range of interventions for people with complex clinical needs.
* Confident in using goal setting and outcome measures to support clinical decisionmaking and evaluate progress.
* Strong, uptodate clinical knowledge, grounded in current evidence and best practice.
* Awareness of resource management, including appropriate use of equipment and time.
* Good organisational awareness, including understanding of Health and Safety requirements.
* Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
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.
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