Wheelchair Therapy Assistant
Ashford, Kent, TN23 6LL
Band 3/4
Salary: £24,071 - £29,114 pa
Permanent, Full Time
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Wheelchair Therapy Assistant/ Practitioner, Band 4 within the Kent and Medway wheelchair service. The role will see you working independently and alongside the Wheelchair Specialist Therapists (Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapists) and Wheelchair Technical Engineers. The post is both clinically based and requires visits to clients’ homes. For the right candidate, there may be an opportunity to start on Band 3 level and work toward completion of job specific competencies. Following completion of competencies, the role will develop to band 4.
The role will see you build on basic knowledge of assessment of patients with a range of disabilities, to develop greater skills enabling the successful candidate to independently assess clients with basic to medium postural and mobility needs. This will include the assessment and provision of basic manual and powered wheelchairs, and assist in Therapist clinics / specialist seating clinics, under the guidance of the specialist wheelchair therapist.
You will manage a small defined caseload of clients under the supervision of the specialist wheelchair therapist.
Experience within the basic assessment and provision of standard wheelchairs would be an advantage, as well as an understanding of how posture management and cognition impacts on success...