Rehabilitation Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are a fast growing business and a leading provider of Healthcare Service solutions including Wheelchair Services. We work closely with NHS and Social Care Organisations providing a complete outsourced wheelchair service that significantly reduces costs, delivers better quality and an enhanced patient experience.

Our mission is to provide a unique service that will ensure all service users receive the care, assessment and mobility equipment at the time they require it to enable them to achieve theirs and their families goals.

Working in an environment where our performance is continually monitored and reviewed by NHS Commissioners of the Service, everything we do has to be carried out with extreme efficiency and care given the sensitive needs of the Wheelchair Service users.

We are looking for a Rehabilitation Engineer to join ourSurrey Wheelchair Service team. This role involves both clinical and technical work due the variety of locations of which you conduct work in and meeting the needs and care of the patients in order to successfully prescribe them with the best postural management solution.

About the role:

• Provide advanced specialist technical knowledge in the areas of complex special seating, wheeled mobility, and pressure care for a wide range of clinical conditions.
• Provide expert opinion, based on advanced engineering knowledge; following analysis and comparison of a range of options, to inform practice and service development.
• Provide innovative solutions to meet the needs of clients with seating and wheeled requirements when no off the shelf solution exists. To design and produce technical drawings to enable these solutions to be manufactured.
• Plan and organise ordering and delivery of a broad range of complex equipment.
• Complete patient records linked to the aims and objectives of the clients and their families.
• Attend wheelchair service clinicians and team meetings
• Assist the Head of Service in planning technical initiatives to enhance the service provided to clients and carers, encouraging involvement of other team members and personnel from other services
• To be able physically and mentally to carry out all tasks associated with the role, as follows:
  • Assess, set up and demonstrate the use of specialised equipment.
  • Close physical handling of patients with complex physical or medical conditions, with or without mechanical aids.
  • Cope with unpredictable patients who may be physically or verbally abusive.
  • Crouching, bending, kneeling and holding awkward postures for long periods.
  • To be able to discuss and explain specific interventions to the patient (eg: whilst adjusting wheelchairs safely and efficiently to suit the user)

About you:

• Experience of working in a mechanical engineering workshop, safe use of hand tools and power tools.
• Computer literate and effective interpersonal/written/verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable knowledge and application of mechanical engineering techniques. Experience of working with wheelchair users.
• VRCT Registration
• HNC or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering (or, in the absence of this formal qualification, a minimum of 3 years experience in a Wheelchair Technician role or a similar position in the private sector.)
• Full UK Driving Licence

What can we offer?

• A salary equivalent to Band 6/7 DOE
• Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
• Up to 33 days holiday (including bank holidays plus optional 5 days leave unpaid)
• Staff benefit scheme 200+ exclusive perks and discounts from leading retailers and leisure outlets
• 5% enhanced employer contribution pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Company Sick Pay

If you feel you have the potential to excel in the role we want to hear from you. Please click APPLY below to register your interest.

This role is working in a regulated activity and is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

No terminology in the advert you have seen is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we will gladly accept applications from all sections of the community.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• VRCT Registration
• HNC or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering (or, in the absence of this formal qualification, a minimum of 3 years experience in a Wheelchair Technician role or a similar position in the private sector.)
• Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable

• Experience of working in a mechanical engineering workshop, safe use of hand tools and power tools.
• Computer literate and effective interpersonal/written/verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable knowledge and application of mechanical engineering techniques. Experience of working with wheelchair users.

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.

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

Millbrook Healthcare

Address

Unit B2

Forsyth Road

Woking

Surrey

GU21 5SA

Employer's website

https://www.millbrook-healthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)