Advanced Wheelchair Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an Advanced Band 7 Wheelchair Therapist position within the Buckinghamshire Wheelchair service, requiring 23.75 hours per week. The role involves assessing and providing mobility and seating solutions for adults and children with severe disabilities, working closely with other healthcare professionals. You will undertake complex postural, pressure care, and seating assessments, and deputise for the Team Lead when necessary. The position is fixed-term for 18 months.
Essential criteria
- Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy degree and registration
- Evidence of learning in specialist field.
- Member of a specialist interest group e.g. PMG
Desirable criteria
- Moving and handling training
- Experience of working in a wheelchair setting
- Experience at a senior level
- Advanced experience of working in an MDT way across agency boundaries
- Strategies for organising own caseload and prioritisation of workload
- Advanced level experience of working in a multidisciplinary way and frequently working across agency boundaries.
- Demonstrate strategies for organising own caseload and prioritisation of workload.
- To have worked autonomously.
- To have participated in student training
- Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to work under pressure and be flexible and adaptable to meet competing priorities
- Supervisory skills
- Highly specialised level of knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to communicate complex messages to service users and team members in written, verbal, formal and informal ways appropriately
- Ability to form professional relationships with clients that may need motivating and encouraging in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture
- Access to a car
- Knowledge of manual handling techniques and equipment
- Needs appropriate computer skills for the role.
- Hardworking and tenacious, willing and able to extend professional knowledge to others.
- Proven team leadership.
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Special Circumstances
- Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary
- Education, Qualifications and Training
- Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy degree and registration
- Evidence of learning in specialist field.
- Member of a specialist interest group e.g. PMG
- Moving and handling training
- Experience of working in a wheelchair setting
- Experience at a senior level
- Advanced experience of working in an MDT way across agency boundaries
- Strategies for organising own caseload and prioritisation of workload
- Advanced level experience of working in a multidisciplinary way and frequently working across agency boundaries.
- Demonstrate strategies for organising own caseload and prioritisation of workload.
- To have worked autonomously.
- To have participated in student training
- Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Ability to work under pressure and be flexible and adaptable to meet competing priorities
- Supervisory skills
- Highly specialised level of knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to communicate complex messages to service users and team members in written, verbal, formal and informal ways appropriately
- Ability to form professional relationships with clients that may need motivating and encouraging in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture
- Access to a car
- Knowledge of manual handling techniques and equipment
- Needs appropriate computer skills for the role.
- Hardworking and tenacious, willing and able to extend professional knowledge to others.
- Proven team leadership.
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Special Circumstances
- Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Advanced Wheelchair Therapist
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced Wheelchair therapist?
We are in the unusual position of having a 23.75 hour Advanced Band 7 Wheelchair therapist vacant at Buckinghamshire Wheelchair service!
You will work closely with and give advice to other health care professionals, social services and education personnel to ensure mobility and seating is provided effectively to adults and children who have severe disabilities and complex health, social, mobility and postural needs.
You will also deputise for the Team lead when required.
Main duties of the job
Support and deputise for the team lead when required
Provide an assessment service for patients requiring long term wheelchair use both manual and powered in a variety of settings
Undertake complex, postural, pressure care and seating assessments in relation to wheelchair mobility using a person centred approach and problem solving skills including custom made postural supportive equipment
Carry out detailed environmental and functional assessments and formulate action plans
Carry out manual handling intervention in regard to the equipment provision
Supervise other staff including admin with performance, appraisals and address training needs
Contribute to development and monitoring of policies
Liaise
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