Job Introduction
Clinical Lead – Wheelchair Services (BSW) Band 7
Based in Melksham with multi‑site community travel
Are you passionate about transforming mobility, independence and quality of life for children and adults? Do you thrive on leading clinical excellence and shaping high‑impact services? We’re looking for an exceptional Clinical Lead to join our BSW Wheelchair Service. A role where your expertise will influence practice across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire, ensuring every service user receives safe, effective and person‑centred care.
About the Role
As our Clinical Lead, you will be the expert voice guiding the assessment and provision of manual and powered wheelchairs, specialist seating and postural management solutions. You’ll bring advanced clinical knowledge and a passion for high‑quality care to a service that makes a profound difference every day. You will shape clinical pathways, drive service improvements, and ensure we deliver consistently high standards in line with national guidance, BSW ICB eligibility criteria and local commissioning requirements.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this pivotal role, you will:
Lead clinical models, pathways and standards across the entire BSW footprint.
Provide advanced expertise in postural management, complex seating, pressure care and clinical risk management.
Champion timely, equitable access to wheelchair services, supporting waiting time targets and key performance indicators.
Work collaboratively across professions, engaging rehabilitation engineers, technical teams, acute and community partners, suppliers and commissioners to continually improve outcomes.
Work closely with the Operations Lead to review and develop processes to ensure the flow of work through the service is maintained.
Drive innovation and quality, ensuring governance and best practice underpin every stage of care.
About You
You’ll be a confident clinical specialist with a track record in complex seating, posture management or related fields, and you’ll bring:
Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire and support a multidisciplinary team
Deep clinical knowledge and the ability to act as a subject‑matter expert
A commitment to improvement, equity and exceptional patient experience
The ability to work flexibly across multiple sites in the BSW region
Package Description
As a Clinical Lead you will be part of our valued team in our Wheelchair Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £47,810 Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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