Rehabilitation Engineering Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be operationally responsible for the Rehabilitation Engineering Service (RES) Workshop (mechanical) to include the management of technical staff and the day to day assessment and resolution of urgent clinical jobs, technical tasks requiring planning, allocation of work, quality checking of work and ensuring processes and policies are followed.

To be responsible for the health and safety processes, including regular safety audits and ensuring current legislation is applied within the workshop. This requires developing and implementing additional processes to ensure compliance with SCFT and national policy and to be proactive when practices in the workshop change.

To analyse and assess highly complex cases to provide expert support to engineers working with clients, carers and in multidisciplinary teams to identify the problems that assistive technology may solve and use my judgement to give expert advice to clinicians.

To assess children with highly complex disabilities and design, develop, adapt and produce equipment appropriate to the agreed solution and to clearly communicate the technical aspects of the use of the equipment produced with the rest of the team.

To work as part of the RES Management Team to support the development of long term strategic plans for the Rehabilitation Engineering Service and collaborate in the development of new policies and procedures and be responsible for the effective implementation of these amongst workshop staff.

Responsible for budget in area and approved signatory for expenditure, organising and preparing financial reports for the department end of year stock take, budget setting and regularly monitoring expenditure against budget. To be responsible for and manage the procurement of all physical resources and maintenance within the workshop, manage budget expenditure and cost the materials and specialist components made within the service.

Person Specification

Registered with the RCT or AHCS or registered with HCPC as Clinical Scientist.

Essential

• Achieved

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• Masters qualification in Engineering (or equivalent level of knowledge in Rehabilitation Engineering).

Previous experience

Essential

• Service Knowledge Previous experience knowledge of different types of rehabilitation engineering services and experience of leadership and staff management ( 3 years)
• Experience of working in at least one rehabilitation engineering service.

Effective leadership of a team

Essential

• Previous experience of team working and able to demonstrate effective leadership of a team.

Essential

Essential

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and health & safety

Experience of managing Rehabilitation Engineering Services.

Essential

• Examples of management responsibility

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chailey Clinical Services

Beggars Wood Road

North Chailey, Nr Lewes

BN8 4JN

Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)