Advanced Wheelchair Clinician & Team Leader

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust; England; Vor Ort; GBP 32.000 - 52.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Enhanced DBS

Zusammenfassung

Dorset HealthCare is seeking an experienced physiotherapist to join the wheelchair service in a senior capacity. The postholder will assess and manage complex mobility needs, lead a multidisciplinary team, and provide expert advice on seating, cushions, and wheelchairs.

You will mentor colleagues and ensure high-quality, evidence-based care. The role requires HCPC registration, a relevant degree or diploma, and the ability to work without visa sponsorship in the UK.

Qualifikationen

• HCPC registered physiotherapist with current registration.
• Experience in wheelchair service or mobility rehabilitation.
• Evidence of extensive clinical reasoning and decision making.
• Experience mentoring colleagues.

Aufgaben

• Carry out comprehensive specialist holistic assessment of patients and carers with highly complex needs, then plan, deliver and evaluate their care.
• Independently assess and manage wheelchair service users, making complex clinical decisions on management and outcomes.
• Prescribe wheelchairs, pressure-relieving cushions and special seating using advanced assessment skills.
• Give advanced clinical and specialist advice, showing leadership and clinical judgement.
• Work autonomously within the multidisciplinary team, guidelines and protocols, using advanced history taking and examination.
• Critically assess and re-evaluate the clinical situation as patients' conditions change.
• Apply knowledge of disease patterns, markers of progression and treatment options at each stage of a condition.
• Manage change in the wheelchair service, monitoring and improving standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, audit, research and education.
• Promote best practice by integrating evidence into clinical practice.
• Work with clients of all ages whose clinical presentations affect long-term mobility.
• Provide high-quality, person-centred care that protects safety, privacy and dignity.

Kenntnisse

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Advanced clinical assessment

Clinical leadership

Mentoring and supervision

Ausbildung

Physiotherapy degree or diploma

Practice assessor training or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Dorset HealthCare is seeking an experienced physiotherapist to join the wheelchair service in a senior capacity. The postholder will assess and manage complex mobility needs, lead a multidisciplinary team, and provide expert advice on seating, cushions, and wheelchairs.

You will mentor colleagues and ensure high-quality, evidence-based care. The role requires HCPC registration, a relevant degree or diploma, and the ability to work without visa sponsorship in the UK.