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Job overview

Liverpool Wheelchair Service is looking for enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 therapist to join our growing team. The successful candidate(s) will provide assessment and provision of wheelchairs, postural support and pressure management to clients of all ages with a wide variety of medical conditions across the diverse city of Liverpool.

The skills required for this post include practical problem solving skills, with sound clinical reasoning skills. An effective team player with excellent organisational and communication skills required to work in a busy service.

You will 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.

Main duties of the job

- 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. 

To be considered for this post you must have:

• BSc degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy and current HCPC registration.
• 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.
• Current UK driving licence is 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 11 million people. 

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.