Job summary
- Main area
- OT - Wheelchair Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Minimum of 30 hours per week is required)
- Job ref
- 164-7173116
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mobility Centre, City Campus
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Team Lead Occupational Therapist - Wheelchair Services
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
This is an opportunity to work at Band 7 level leading the Wheelchair Service clinical team.
The Wheelchair service team is responsible for all patients of all ages from birth to 100+ with a wide variety of conditions and diagnoses. The Service provides wheelchairs, special seating systems, pressure relieving cushions, postural support systems, technical services and supports with assistive technology systems.
The team is responsible for assessing, prescribing, fitting and handing over this equipment.
The role of the team lead is to support the team with these roles, you will need a significant amount of broad-based knowledge and understanding of many of these conditions and the impact they have on individuals. You will need an excellent understanding of the equipment that the service provides and possess advanced clinical skills to provide this specialist service.
You will need strong communication and negotiating skills to deal with both the patients and the staff.
You will be responsible for overseeing the stock of equipment used, with support from the senior Rehabilitation Engineers. You will be liaising with our approved repairers to ensure timely and high-quality service delivery.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to job description and person specification for full details of the job. Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Leading the Wheelchair service in a complex speciality, providing a responsive and timely service.
Providing a supportive environment for team members under your direct management, including undertaking annual appraisals and managing health and wellbeing.
Contributing to the education and teaching of all team members including students, preceptees, B6s and Rehabilitation Technicians.
Ensuring that high quality, evidenced based practice, service development and education underpin the service delivery.
Ensuring that NUH values and behaviours are embedded in everyday practice.
You will have excellent communication and team working skills, with the ability to apply problem-solving skills to patient care and leadership tasks. As this role will include working with patients and their families during potentially stressful life events, including end of life situations, a compassionate and resilient character is required.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will demonstrate advanced level occupational therapy skills in assessment and prescription of equipment to facilitate excellent care in the Wheelchair Service
A willingness to learn and develop further, both clinically and professionally and to lead on this within the team is essential. The successful applicant must be open minded to new ways of working and lead on this. The ideal individual for this role needs to be flexible, dynamic and forward thinking. You will demonstrate an ability to work autonomously to an advanced level and provide support to other members of the team, including peers, Band 5 OT’s, including preceptees, support workers and students
Please see the detailed job description and person specification for more information.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) or equivalent Occupational Therapy
- Full HCPC Registration
- Recognised post graduate training in wheelchair therapy
Other
Essential criteria
- Car driver with access to vehicle for clinical visits
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of performance management
- Experience of training and supervising students in own profession
- Band 6 experience in wheelchair therapy
Desirable criteria
- Band 7 experience in wheelchair therapy
Communication
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
Analytical & Judgement
Essential criteria
- Able to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options
- Able to evaluate clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and your team
Planning & Organisational
Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise and organise workload of self and your team
- Effective delegation and time management skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Roberts
- Job title
- Team Lead Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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