Clinical Lead for Wheelchair Services

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 are 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.

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 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

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Package: £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 everyday purchases plus cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them.
• Online and face to face help with mental and physical wellbeing, career coaching and counselling.

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.

Safeguarding

While it doesn’t happen often, 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.