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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is the local NHS organisation providing primary care and community health care services to the people of Northumberland and North Tyneside. We plan, deliver and commission a wide range of health care and treatment to meet the health needs of local people and we are looking to recruit people who can meet our expectations of delivering a first-class health service.

Helping someone discover their mobility and freedom is an incredible feeling. It never fails to bring a huge sense of fulfilment – as the team at Northumbria Wheelchair Services know well.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join Northumbria Wheelchair Services. The Service provides assessments of adults and children for the provision of long-term wheelchairs, accessories, and postural seating, in order to meet an individual’s mobility needs.

Wheelchair Services Northumbria is a friendly Multi disciplinary Team. Together they provide comprehensive assessments and interventions, which lead to the provision of regionally approved wheelchairs and accessories in order to meet a wide range of clinical needs for both adults and children.

• To ensure Wheelchairs and accessories are received, maintained, issued and collected effectively and efficiently.
• To collect, load/unload and transport wheelchairs and their accessories to and from patient’s homes and other establishments.
• To monitor, record and adjust warehouse stock in order to meet the demands of the service.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

• To provide administrative tasks as required as part of the role including the use of the wheelchair clinical system.
• To carry out minor adjustments to Wheelchairs ie: replacement of footplates / Tension adjustable backs in accordance to manufacturers manuals.
• To be responsible for organizing wheelchair / accessory deliveries and collections to and from patient’s homes and other establishments.
• To ensure all relevant documentation is complete for deliveries, orders and stock management.
• To raise Purchase orders and Receipt new stock into warehouse, ensuring that the items and numbers received are correct as per order specification.
• To manage the warehouse stock levels, to ensure equipment is readily available when required.
• Loading and unloading of van in a timely manner.

About NHS

CEO: Amanda Pritchard
Revenue: $5 to $25 million (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Government
Website: www.nhs.uk
Year Founded: 1946