# Wheelchair Therapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Northumbria House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15T14:19:17.337Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Seaton_Delaval/Northumbria_Healthcare_NHCT_Northumbria_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Wheelchair_Therapist/Wheelchair_Therapist-v8352374
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8352374?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

- To ensure the provision of a comprehensive service within the resource available to the Northumbria Wheelchair service
- To manage own specialist caseload of clients who often present with complex needs, using advanced clinical reasoning to assess, prescribe, implement and evaluate the equipment provided.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

### Main duties of the job

- Full assessment of the service user’s wheelchair and postural needs, analysing their situation and the effect their illness or disability has on their lives.
- To identify and select the most appropriate wheelchair service intervention options – balancing the complex needs of the suitability of equipment, service user choice, risk, safety, independence, areas of conflict, eligibility, and cost effectiveness – making informed decisions with all concerned.
- Ensure service user and carer safety at all times.
- Ensure that our decision making encompasses the Trust’s values on service user care and the provision of safe and quality services.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- UK acquired/recognised Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
- Registered with Health & Care Professions Council.
- Post Graduate Diploma or relevant post graduate experience.
- Teaching & Assessing qualification (or willing to work towards) appropriate to level of post holder to enable mentoring of students, junior staff and delivery of in house training.

**Desirable**

- Completion of Oxford 4 Day Posture course.

### Other Requirements

**Essential**

- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Experience of working with service users with primarily physical illness or disability.

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of Wheelchair Services

## Documents

- [trust compact (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3037)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2867)
- [northumbria privacy policy (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1899)
- [com1284-wheelchair therapist (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10688823)

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