Role Overview
Northumbria Wheelchair Services is embarking on a new change and we are looking to recruit to our growing team. This is an exciting time for us as we have introduced a new structure within the service and are also recruiting a new clinical lead. Delivering care to residents across the Northumberland and North Tyneside area our service is located in recently purpose-built accommodation with excellent staff and patient facilities on the Northumbria manufacturing hub site in Seaton Delaval, Whitley Bay. If you are a therapist looking for a new challenge and would like the opportunity to be part of this forward thinking team then this may be for you.
Responsibilities
* Manage your own caseload of clients who often present with complex needs, using advanced clinical reasoning to assess, prescribe, implement and evaluate the equipment provided.
* Carry out full assessments of the clients' wheelchair and postural needs, analysing their situation and the effect their illness or disability has on their lives.
* Identify and select the most appropriate wheelchair service intervention options – balancing the complex needs of the suitability of equipment, client choice, risk, safety, independence, areas of conflict, eligibility, and cost effectiveness – making informed decisions with all concerned.
* Analyse the results of each wheelchair assessment, consider a range of options, formulate professional judgements and organise the provision of equipment.
* Monitor, evaluate and modify interventions for clients in order to measure progress and ensure the effectiveness of the interventions.
* Act appropriately in relation to clinical adverse incidents taking remedial action by alerting necessary professionals, complying with guidelines implemented by the Trust and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
* Manage a caseload of clients including adults and children.
* Undertake clinical wheelchair and seating assessments at clinic, within the clients home, residential or health care setting, including assessments for:
o Manual wheelchairs
o Specially adapted manual wheelchairs
o Powered wheelchairs (initial assessment only regarding suitability and criteria for provision of indoor/outdoor powered wheelchairs)
o Postural support and special seating
o Pressure relieving cushions
* Set up, hand over and demonstrate equipment with a high degree of accuracy taking into account moving and handling regulations.
* Full training will be provided and we welcome applicants who would be happy to be trained in wheelchair provision.
Application Deadline
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025.
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