Wessex Rehabilitation Workshop Instructor & Lead Technician

Transformationunitgm; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Salisbury is seeking a Therapy Workshop Manager to oversee vocational rehabilitation projects. This unique role combines practical manufacturing skills with patient interaction, providing a rewarding opportunity to support individuals recovering from significant injuries. The position offers excellent benefits and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Minimum of 35 days paid holiday

NHS discounts

Generous pension scheme

Access to health and wellbeing programs

On-site health and fitness club

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in a relevant trade.
• Experience supervising staff and ensuring health and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Industrial Workshop and manage workshop activities.
• Supervise the band 5 workshop technician and volunteers.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Effective communication

Time management

Practical manufacturing skills

Education

Recognised relevant apprenticeship or degree in engineering or manufacturing

NEBOSH General Certificate

Job description

Employer Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Wessex Rehab, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Town Salisbury, Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum pro rata if part-time Salary period Yearly Closing 05/06/2025 23:59

Band 6

Job overview

As part of the multi-disciplinary specialist team, you’ll work with the Therapists to develop new vocational rehabilitation projects and support the rehabilitation of our patients who present with a range of injuries and conditions. As the Therapy Workshop Manager, you will be the subject matter expert (SME) in fabricating and maintaining items in wood, metal, plastic and glass as required by the rehabilitation service or the wider Leadership and Management.

This is a unique and rewarding role within the NHS that provides the opportunity to use skills developed within the trade industries but also work alongside patients supporting the delivery of vocational rehabilitation and wider leadership management.

At Wessex Rehab, we go beyond standard outpatient Physiotherapy rehabilitation. Within the spacious facility you’ll find a large gym and private treatment areas, as well as our more unusual therapy spaces including a bouldering wall, industrial workshop, and hydrotherapy pool. Patients referred to our facility have often suffered significant; life changing physical injuries and have undergone advanced and interesting surgical reconstruction.

Work as the lead workshop technician and manager of the Industrial Workshop at Wessex Rehab, Salisbury District Hospital, within an outstanding outpatient rehabilitation facility.

Work directly with patients on a 1:1 or group basis as part of their rehabilitation journey, offering instruction, supervision and support to them to allow completion of appropriate activities in the industrial workshop.

Oversee daily, weekly and annual maintenance of plant and machinery in the Industrial Workshop, and ensure all records are maintained in a clear, concise and accurate manner, accessible and available at all times for audit and review. Oversee all requests and orders for maintenance or fabrication of items that are placed at the Industrial Workshop, taking responsibility for invoicing for work completed.

Work closely with the Health and Safety team to ensure the Industrial Workshop at Wessex Rehab sustains the highest standards of work place safety, records and mitigates all risks.

Directly supervise the band 5 workshop technician, ensuring the required leadership, direction, work-day planning and technical oversight is provided. Manage resource levels in the workshop to ensure adequate staffing at all times, including managing annual leave requests and sickness absence.

Work with volunteers who give their time to the Trust and our patients, ensuring that they are allocated appropriate and useful tasks to undertake in line with their role and experience.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here were driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated Good by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Dont just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities

Person specification

Education

• Served a recognised relevant apprenticeship registered trade, or degree/degree equivalent qualification in engineering or manufacturing
• Approved training / qualification in carrying out maintenance on workshop machinery
• National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) General Certificate

Experience

• A professional background within a relevant trade- at least 3 years experience of working in this area
• Experience of acting in a leadership / management role, supervising other staff
• Experience of working to health and safety standards
• Experience of supervising inexperienced individuals in a workshop environment
• Experience of communicating with and supporting individuals who have health conditions.

Knowledge

• Practical manufacturing skills, working with a range of materials
• Effective communication skills, both written and spoken
• Excellent time management skills with an ability to cope with conflicting demands
• Confident in the use of standard IT packages e.g. Excel and Word

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION

If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

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