Wheelchair Therapy Assistant - Birkenhead, United Kingdom - Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Birkenhead, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting development opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Wheelchair Therapy Assistant who is passionate about delivering personalised care to join our Wirral and West Cheshire Wheelchair Service.

You will be supporting our multidisciplinary team of wheelchair therapists, rehabilitation engineer technicians and therapy support staff to deliver a specialist service for adults and children with mobility and postural problems requiring wheelchairs.

We are looking for an experienced support worker, who has worked in the hospital and/or community delivering care to a wide range of people with varying long-term conditions/ disabilities.

Ideally you will have experience of working as a therapy/ rehab assistant and have knowledge of wheelchairs; however, this is not essential, providing you are quick to learn and can demonstrate underpinning and transferable knowledge and skills.

You must be compassionate, have good interpersonal and communication skills and able to work as part of a team.

Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we are proud of the high-quality care we deliver to patients.

You will work in both the Wirral Wheelchair Service team, based at St Catherine's Health Centre, Birkenhead, and the West Cheshire Wheelchair Service team based at Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port, according to service need.

This is primarily a patient facing role; however, you will be required to carry out a range of housekeeping duties, including the recycling of wheelchair cushions and accessories, and maintaining safe and efficient working environment.

You will see patients in a clinic setting. This will involve assessing people for and providing low level wheelchair equipment, working within a defined protocol/ competencies.

You will also assist the clinical staff in certain clinics, such as to help with manual handling procedures, stock management and patient flow.

On occasion, you may need to assess/ review patients in their home environment.

Wirral Health and Social Care Community Trust is a forward thinking, developing but established Trust, committed to delivering high standards of care to all patients, and committed to support improvement in services.

It supports it's staff to develop their skills, knowledge, providing internal training, opportunity for external training to achieve personal development and supporting career development.

We are a dynamic and friendly team who value our staff.

We offer a range of support staff in new roles, a well-established supervision, and appraisal structure, and will provide you with the necessary training and support for you to develop the required competencies for the role.

This is a great development opportunity for a support worker who is looking to progress in their career or looking for a change in direction/ challenge.

You must be able to work the advertised hours, and access to a car for work purposes is essential as well as having a full clean driving license and be flexible to travel between our 2 service locations.

Please visit the Trust website for more information about our service.