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Qualifications

Education and professional qualifications

Education and professional qualifications
Subject / Qualification Place of study Grade / Result Year obtained

Rehabilitation Engineering (BSc) Coventry University 2.1 2015

Training courses attended

Training courses attended
Year
Course title Training provider Duration completed

Posture Management For Adults And Children With Complex Oxford Centre for Enablement 4 days 2020
Disabilities (OCE)

Professional registration
Professional registration
Professional body
Other

Please provide details below

Register of Clinical Technologists

Membership / Registration number

CT04240

Expiry / renewal date

31/12/21

Further qualifications
Further qualifications
Please provide details of any proposed further qualifications
In progress

Employment

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Employment history
Employment history

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Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Employer address
91 Oak Tree Lane
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6HZ

Type of business
NHS

Reporting to (job title)

Line Manager

Telephone
01214663100

Your job title

Rehabilitation Engineer

Start date
February 2016

End date

Grade
Band 6

Salary
£33,176

Period of notice
Two months

Reason for leaving (if applicable)

Looking for new challenge and taking more responsibilities to support the service visions. Also, for personal financial gains.

Brief description of your duties & responsibilities

Assess mobility and postural needs of clients and prescribe equipment accordingly to meet client's need. Order equipment off the shelf
from NHS suppliers, make modification or design and prescribe bespoke items.
I also participate in running special seating clinic with therapist and sub contracted company Specialised Orthotic Services (SOS) to
assess and prescribe custom made seating system. Assess and prescribe special control items, if client's need beyond my capability refer
to specialist service (posture and mobility service).
I supervise and support wheelchair technician and participate in service development projects. Please see the supporting information
section for more detailed.

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Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Employer address
91 Oak Tree Lane
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6HZ

Type of business
NHS

Reporting to (job title)

Line Manager

Telephone
01214663100

Your job title

Trainee Rehabilitation Engineer

Start date
December 2014

End date
February 2016

Grade
Band 5

Salary
£25,000

Period of notice
1 month

Reason for leaving (if applicable)

Found a new post as qualified Rehab Engineer (Band 6) with more responsibilities.

Brief description of your duties & responsibilities

As a Trainee Rehab Engineer my role was shadowing and completing competency portfolio to achieve RCT registration. Hand in hand to
the above objective I was also supporting the day to day service under the instruction of my supervisor.

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Employer name
British Red Cross

Employer address
7 Lowe Street
Camp Hill
Birmingham
B12 0ER

Type of business
Charitable Voluntary Organisation

Reporting to (job title)

Line Manager

Telephone
01217665444

Your job title

Support Worker

Start date
September 2010

End date
September 2013

Grade
N/A

Salary
£18,000

Period of notice
1 month

Reason for leaving (if applicable)

Career progress to Higher Education

Brief description of your duties & responsibilities

My role was to assess and support service user for their housing, employment, education, applying relevant grants and referring service
users for financial advice. Also, support service users in completing various applications to promote their independence. Part of my role is
to assist or sign post patient if their needs are not met by our service.

Gaps in employment
Gaps in employment
If you have any gaps within your employment history, please state the reasons for the gaps below.
Due to Career progress in Further Education

NHS service
NHS service
Start date of continuous NHS service
December 2014

Months since most recent employment ended (if applicable)

Still in Band 6 post

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SupportingInfo

Personal statement
Personal statement
Provide a personal statement which you can use as a starting point to your supporting information for specific applications.
I am applying for this post, because I believe my experience and knowledge fits the criteria.
I am a Rehabilitation Engineer with strong leadership and relationship-building skills. Dynamic, self motivated, flexible and hard working
person, who has excellent communication skills and particularly enjoy working with young people and adults with disability from different
cultures and backgrounds.
I have great respect for individuals as I love gaining respect in return. I do not discriminate individuals against on the basis of their race,
gender, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, disability, age, religious belief or by any condition or requirement
which is not demonstrably justified but value any client for whom they are.
I am currently working with Posture and Mobility Services, covering Birmingham Wheelchair Service. My role as a Rehabilitation Engineer
is to provide technical and clinical input within the field of wheelchairs and seating systems. My responsibilities are assessing client needs,
prescribe equipment and handing over equipment. Also involve in monitoring the activities of wheelchair repair service (responding to
inquires), maintenance, and modification of wheelchair. Working in partnership with repair service auditing stock wheelchairs, and
inspection of reconditioning and
refurbishment of returned used wheelchairs for cost savings to the service.
As part of my role, if client's needs cannot be met with off the shelf equipment, it is my responsibility to make modification or design and
prescribe bespoke items. Also, involves assessing and prescribing special control systems to meet client's complex power wheelchair
needs; however, if client's needs are beyond my capability I refer clients to specialist service (posture and mobility service).
I also, participate in multi-disciplinary clinical assessment with therapist and subcontracted company representatives (e.g. Specialised
Orthotic Services (SOS) or Active Design) to assess and prescribe custom made seating systems. I have completed a 4 day training in
Posture Management for People with Complex Disability at Oxford Centre for Enablement to enhance my knowledge and experience
assessing client's complex postural needs.
It is also my responsibility in supervising and managing our wheelchair technician from day one since the start of the job on going (created
competency training plan to match job description, produced a day to day activity process to support clinicians and lead regular 1 to 1
meetings).
Moreover, I participates in service development projects. Assist senior colleagues and line manager in developing and empowering all
members of the team to perform high standards and achieve best practice in service.
The current job thought me how to manage my time effectively, complete tasks under pressure, improve my communication skills, assess
the needs of service users, and provide clear and accurate information.
With the support of my colleagues and line manager, I will endeavour to offer the best service to clients. I have good experience with
people in a customer oriented environment either face to face or none face to face and can therefore communicate professionally and
clearly in both written and spoken English. I understand that some clients might have learning difficulty or be non-English speakers and
therefore would need to communicate to them in a clear and simple language that they can understand and sometimes a need to use
communication aid or interpreters in order for the message being communicated to be well understood.
I believe that if anything is beyond my ability, I would always refer or report to my line manager way in time by updating them with my
progress. My work as a support worker previously and as clinician currently gave me the opportunity to acquire skills such as excellent
listening skills, problem solving and the ability to empathize as well as establishing boundaries to avoid emotional over involvement.
I am fully competent and comfortable using office software packages i.e. Word, Spreadsheet, Database, CATIA V5R13, SoftOption BEST,
Outlook and competent in using power wheelchair programmer software tools.
I have full and clean driving license. I am also registered with IPEM and RCT professional registration.
Finally, if granted the wonderful opportunity, I guaranty you that you are employing an honest, trustworthy and a hard working person.

Preferred employment type

Preferred employment type
What is your preferred employment type?
Full time

Research
Research
Briefly describe any research projects you have undertaken over the past 5 years, the research aim and outcome, whether you initiated
and led the research independently or worked under the supervision of a senior.

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Project title
Project Engineering

Date
March 2017

Aim of research
Bariatric Project

Conclusions/Actions
Produced a poster and presented the outcome of the project in joint CPD meeting to the regional therapists and rehabilitation engineers
attendees.

Please summarise your main learning point from an effective audit/quality improvement project you have undertaken.
One size doesn't fit all and the importance of knowing local weight management services to refer bariatric patient were there are issues in
finding equipment that meets client's body weight and size. Identify how close to the maximum user weight can you prescribe based on
the fluctuation of body weight.

Do you hold any particular qualifications in research?

No

Team working
Team working

Describe situations where you have been involved in working in a team, not necessarily limited to professional activities.
Very good team player, participate in day to day Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) clinical assessment in running, joint special seating clinics
with therapist and subcontracted company representative (Specialised Orthotic Services) to assess and prescribe custom made seating
systems.

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