Special Seating Clinician (Clinical Specialist Or Senior Grade)

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We are currently seeking a highly-motivated Special Seating Clinician to join our team in Sandymount.

Contract Type: 12-month full time contract.

Contract Hours: 35 hrs per week.

Salary Scale: Senior - €57,771 - €68,385; Clinical Specialist - €64,123 - 74,738; Clincal Engineer - €45,255 - €71,527

Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days.

Overview of the Post:

SeatTech is a leading national provider of special seating solutions to wheelchair users with complex needs. This role provides an exciting opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary clinical, engineering and technical team to provide a user-focussed service.

The primary function of this role is to work in partnership with SeatTech colleagues in the delivery of a clinical seating service that involves wheelchair and special seating assessments, equipment selection, prescription and provision. The Special Seating Clinician provides special seating expertise, informed by a rich understanding of clinical need.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:

Service Delivery:

In supporting the provision of a high-quality special seating service, the Special Seating Clinician independently carries a clinical caseload. This involves:

• Delivery of a quality clinical service as it relates to the assessment, prescription, delivery, handover, and review of posture positioning and related mobility equipment, to meet individual service user requirements

• Working in partnership with colleagues and service users, taking into account the service user’s ability, needs and preferences

• Communicating effectively with colleagues, service users, relatives, carers and other related professionals

• Being accountable for documentation of service user intervention according to the norms of their profession and the requirements of SeatTech

• Delivering clinical services to the service user in the location assigned – this will include off-site service delivery, which will entail an element of off-site travel and might necessitate overnight stays on occasion

Service Development:

The Special Seating Clinician plays a pivotal role in the development of the service as a whole, and contributes to the formation of a strategy for the service to help ensure its sustainability into the future. Current service development priorities in which the successful applicant will be involved include:

• Supporting the review, further development, and promotion of the SeatTech suite of seating assessment training courses

• Establishing collaborative research partnerships with third-level education institutions

• Transitioning to digital technologies

Please see Job Description for full list

The successful candidate will have

Clinical Specialist Essential Criteria:

• Hold an Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy qualification recognised by the Occupational Therapists or Physiotherapists Registration Board at CORU

AND

• Be registered on the Occupational Therapists /Physiotherapists Register maintained by the Occupational Therapists or Physiotherapists Registration Board at CORU.

AND

• Have five years' full-time post-qualification clinical experience, of which four years full-time (or equivalent) must be recent and consecutive working as a senior Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist / Clinical Engineer in the area of special seating.

Senior Clinician Essential Criteria:

• An honours degree (NFQ Level 8 or higher) in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Prosthetics & Orthotics or Biomedical/Clinical Engineering.

• Training in anatomy & physiology

• Understanding of the principles of postural management & seating assessment

• Three years’ experience working in a biomechanical environment with experience of working with bespoke custom postural corrective devices

Desirable Criteria:

• Significant independent experience of assessing for, prescribing, and fitting postural corrective devices

• Postgraduate research experience

• Knowledge of the European Medical Devices Regulations

• Experience of delivering and assessing CPD training courses and/or seminars

• Ability to undertake critical analysis and evaluation

Please see Person Specifications for full list

This position is open to clinicians with significant experience in the area. Applicants with less experience are also encourage to apply, and may be considered with modified job description & pay scale.

If you believe you would fit the role then please submit your application today.

Benefits

As a staff member of Enable Ireland, you will have access to a wide range of benefits, including:

• Excellent internal and external training opportunities

• Generous annual leave entitlements

• Flexible Working

• Long service reward scheme

• Pay adjusted Maternity Leave

• Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave

• Pay adjusted Paternity Leave

• Wellbeing benefits

• Pension

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What now?

To apply, please download the Job Description and Person Specification for your information and complete the online application form. CVs will not be accepted.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 3rd January 2025

A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months.

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