Band 7 Senior Rehabilitation Engineer

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the West Midlands seeks a Senior Rehabilitation Engineer to lead the Regional Posture & Mobility Service. The role includes quality lead for compliance with Medical Device legislation, and clinical duties in seating assessment and bespoke casting.

You will contribute to West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and Local Wheelchair Services within a multidisciplinary team, oversee equipment adaptations and catalogue pricing, and take on

Responsibilities

• Lead the Regional Posture & Mobility Service quality efforts to ensure compliance with Medical Device legislation.
• Provide clinical input for seating assessment and bespoke casting.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary team activities with occupational therapists, physiotherapists, clinicians, and doctors.

Job description

The position focuses on the regional provision of specialist seating. The purpose of this post is to act as a specialism Lead within the Regional Posture & Mobility Service with specific responsibilities as quality lead for the compliance of internally produced supportive seating with the Medical Device legislation and equipment management. The post will also include clinical duties within the Service including the assessment and casting for bespoke seating. There will also be a share of day-to-day management duties within the Posture & Mobility Services.

Interview dates will be 25/11/26

To provide technical and clinical input to West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and the Local Wheelchair Services of the West Midlands Region. Within the field of wheelchairs and seating equipment assess, prescribe, commission and overseeing manufacture of equipment adaptations and modifications. The majority of assessments will be carried out as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The team would normally include an Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist or Clinical Scientist and may also include a Doctor. The Senior Rehabilitation Engineer (R.E.) will contribute in terms of the technical, clinical and therapeutic value of equipment, any modifications that may be required and supply details. This requires the individual to be independently mobile with a driving license .To act as the Quality Lead for the Regional Posture and Mobility Service. Responsibility for producing the MWS catalogue and pricing.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.