Job Title: Special Seating Clinician
Location: Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Contract Type: Permanent full-time
Salary Scale: €57,771 - €68,385 pro rata per annum
Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days
The Special Seating Clinician plays a pivotal role in the delivery of a clinical seating service that involves wheelchair and special seating assessments, equipment selection, prescription, and provision.
Key Responsibilities:
* 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:
* 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.
Requirements:
* 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.
* 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.
Benefits:
* Excellent internal and external training opportunities.
* Generous annual leave entitlements.
* Long service reward scheme.
* Pay adjusted Maternity Leave.
* Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave.
* Pay adjusted Paternity Leave.