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Job overview

To provide specialist mobility and postural assessments, treatment and prescription for people with a permanent and substantial disability. Who require wheelchair and associated equipment provision, including postural management systems. Involving clients fully in the process of assessment and wheelchair provision. To contribute to maintaining an effective and efficient service and providing support to other team members.

Have clinical leaderships skills to support training and advise for clinicians and technician team.                                                                                                                Supervision of staff and training of competencies within role to junior staff  

Screen referrals from multidisciplinary team, GP's, consultants and take appropriate action telephone calls, visits and clinics for each client.

To undertake comprehensive assessments as part of a multidisciplinary team as well as working independently in a range of settings (clinics, schools, home, regional centre). Taking in to account the client's needs posture and environment and also the care / carer's needs. From the assessment prescribe appropriate mobility and posture equipment and allocate accessories. Communicate effectively with other health professionals, professionals in social care and voluntary sector as well as representatives from the supply companies to give a client centred and sensitive approach to provision of suitable equipment.

Main duties of the job

Required to  undertake comprehensive assessments of service users with a variety of physical, cognitive and/or learning disabilities. Many service users present with complex multi-pathologies which require a high level of understanding of the impact of these conditions/disabilities. Identification of social and environmental issues that may impact on the final equipment recommendations is also key to providing a holistic posture/ pressure management solution with a wheelchair.

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.

• Wheelchair assessment and provision and prescription of wheeled mobility, pressure care and postural support.
• Management of complex caseloads.
• Complex postural assessment and provision of wheelchairs to support patients as part of a 24 postural care approach.

Minimum 18 months experience as a qualified therapist, working with patients with long-term and deteriorating medical conditions, including palliative care, neurology, paediatrics.

An understanding of the impact of these conditions on patient’s lives.

Experience of undertaking holistic assessments.

Previous experience of working in a Wheelchair service is preferred but not essential.

Member of a special interest group preferred but not essential.

Working for our organisation

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.