Rehabilitation Engineer

We are looking for a Rehabilitation Engineer to join to the Kent and Medway Service Centre in Ashford.

Millbrook Healthcare is a rapidly expanding, family-owned and run business, with a mission to provide the highest quality care and a great environment for a staff to work. Every day our teams make a real difference to people’s lives, through the delivery of high-quality assessments and equipment, supporting with needs of users, families and their carers.

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. This role involves both clinical and technical work due the variety of locations in which you conduct work 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 (e.g. 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 – minimum 3 years

Rewards & Benefits:

• A salary equivalent to Band 6/7 £28,050 - £43,041 depending on experience
• Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm (37.5 hours)
• Up to 38 days holiday (including bank holidays, plus option to take additional 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

This role is working in a regulated activity and may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. If you feel you have potential to excel in the role we want to hear from you.

For more information, or to apply, please click here.

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.