• Job Description

  Req#: C9263-25-0968?language=en&page=375&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Part-time vacancy 22.5 hours per week (three full days).

  North East Drive Mobility (NEDM) is a growing service and we are excited to invite applications from qualified registered healthcare professionals (OT/Physiotherapist), who are interested in the challenge of a role in a specialist clinical service.

  Assessment of medical fitness to drive and passenger assessment are dynamic and evolving fields which require a commitment to professional excellence, a proven record of continued professional development, as well as an ambition to develop your career within a specialist rehabilitative service.

  Part of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust, NEDM is jointly funded by the Integrated Care Board and the Department for Transport. NEDM is part of the national coverage of Mobility Centres accredited by Driving Mobility*. Our main centre is based at Walkergate Park Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, with outreach services located in Cumbria and Teesside.

  *Driving Mobility is the UK wide network of Mobility Centres providing assessment, advice and information on all aspects of personal mobility. Driving Mobility is the umbrella organisation for all Accredited Mobility Centres. It ensures that there are common standards, promotes good practice, offers training and education, and works closely with organisations such as the Department for Transport, the DVLA, Motability, police and varied healthcare professionals.

  Main duties of the job

  You will have an ability to communicate effectively with service users, health professionals and major stakeholders including DVLA, Motability and the police, as well as having a passion for developing services in line with service user and stakeholder needs.

  You will be able to apply your clinical expertise to assess practical function during on-road assessment whilst accompanied by an Approved Driving Instructor, and ideally will have experience of working with a range of neurological and musculoskeletal conditions and will be able to deliver critical recommendations to service users related to their driving ability

  Based at Walkergate Park Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and working flexibly between our outreach bases in Carlisle and Teesside once per week, this is an opportunity to become part of a busy, specialist clinical assessment team. You will also have the opportunity to train in powered wheelchair/mobility scooter and specialist child car seat assessments as part of your development.

  An induction period is provided with ongoing workplace training to support your professional development in this specialist role. You will also be required to complete a mandatory Driving Mobility education pathway programme which will be fully funded as part of your role. (Note: in the attached job description this is described as the Oxford Brookes University course which is no longer in place and should be disregarded).

  Car driver (full licence holder) is essential to the role.

  About us

  We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

  Details

  Date posted

  14 October 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £47,810 to £54,710 a year pro rata per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  263-SCG25-142-EW

  Job locations

  Walkergate Park Hospital

  Benfield Road

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  NE6 4QD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please find attached job description for full details.

  Advertising date : 14th October 2025

  Closing date : 28th October 2025

  We welcome your application.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please find attached job description for full details.

  Advertising date : 14th October 2025

  Closing date : 28th October 2025

  We welcome your application.

  Person Specification

  Education and Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree or equivalent in either Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy or First Level Registered Nurse
  • Relevant health care professional council registration
  • Academic ability to study towards Masters level
  • Audit experience with an ability take a lead role
  • Evidence of continuing professional development/post registration education and training

  Desirable

  • Experience of supervision and supporting the professional development of staff
  • Working knowledge of research process
  • Knowledge of services offered by external agencies relating to the speciality, eg DVLA, Motability and voluntary agencies such as AgeUK

  Knowledge and Experience

  Essential

  • A broad knowledge of disability, health conditions and impairments affecting physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional functioning.
  • Working knowledge and application of IT skills in the areas of report writing, e-mail, data recording, internet research

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of adaptations and technology to assist passengers with disabilities

  Skills and Competencies

  Essential

  • Highly developed communication skills, written, verbal and non-verbal, including the ability to deliver unwelcome news.
  • Advanced knowledge, application and analysis of models of practice, assessment and treatment techniques and outcome measurers.
  • Advanced clinical reasoning skills and critical reflection.
  • Highly developed personal, organisational and planning skills
  • Ability to make decisions and set priorities.
  • Ability to undertake complex risk assessments
  • Ability to deliver unwelcome news.
  • Ability to act autonomously and flexibly within the role.

  Role/Team Specific Requirements

  Essential

  • The ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
  • Enthusiastic and motivated to develop within the speciality

  Personal Characteristics/Additional Requirements

  Essential

  • Empathetic, reliable, self aware, approachable, confident and mature attitude
  • Able to meet the mobility requirements of the post
  • Car driver with current driving license

  Person Specification

  Education and Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree or equivalent in either Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy or First Level Registered Nurse
  • Relevant health care professional council registration
  • Academic ability to study towards Masters level
  • Audit experience with an ability take a lead role
  • Evidence of continuing professional development/post registration education and training

  Desirable

  • Experience of supervision and supporting the professional development of staff
  • Working knowledge of research process
  • Knowledge of services offered by external agencies relating to the speciality, eg DVLA, Motability and voluntary agencies such as AgeUK

  Knowledge and Experience

  Essential

  • A broad knowledge of disability, health conditions and impairments affecting physical, sensory, cognitive and emotional functioning.
  • Working knowledge and application of IT skills in the areas of report writing, e-mail, data recording, internet research

  Desirable

  • Knowledge of adaptations and technology to assist passengers with disabilities

  Skills and Competencies

  Essential

  • Highly developed communication skills, written, verbal and non-verbal, including the ability to deliver unwelcome news.
  • Advanced knowledge, application and analysis of models of practice, assessment and treatment techniques and outcome measurers.
  • Advanced clinical reasoning skills and critical reflection.
  • Highly developed personal, organisational and planning skills
  • Ability to make decisions and set priorities.
  • Ability to undertake complex risk assessments
  • Ability to deliver unwelcome news.
  • Ability to act autonomously and flexibly within the role.

  Role/Team Specific Requirements

  Essential

  • The ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
  • Enthusiastic and motivated to develop within the speciality

  Personal Characteristics/Additional Requirements

  Essential

  • Empathetic, reliable, self aware, approachable, confident and mature attitude
  • Able to meet the mobility requirements of the post
  • Car driver with current driving license

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Walkergate Park Hospital

  Benfield Road

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  NE6 4QD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Walkergate Park Hospital

  Benfield Road

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  NE6 4QD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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