Occupational Therapist / Clinical Advisor

Location: Kent

Post: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Comparable to NHS Band 6 / Band 7, depending on Experience

This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward-thinking community equipment services provider, who will support you to be the best you can be in this field as an equipment specialist!

Join us as our new Occupational Therapist / Clinical Advisor at Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd and let us empower you to truly make a difference. Our continued employee development programmes, internal training and exceptional leadership will give you the ability to continuously develop yourself professionally whilst providing the best outcomes for the KENT contract.

You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever-developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values. Our national clinical team has strong peer support, CPD, induction and supervision structures in place under the management of the Head of Clinical Services.

Medequip is the leading provider of medical equipment services to local authorities and the NHS across the UK, delivering a wide range of equipment and support to people in their own homes, keeping people independent for longer.

The Role:

As the Occupational Therapist / Clinical Advisor for Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd you will be part of our existing Community Equipment Services (CES). We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Occupational Therapist to provide expert equipment advice and support to prescribers, commissioners, operational staff, and the community.

You will have extensive experience and have undertaken either management or specialist roles in your field of work. You will use your expert equipment knowledge to ensure best practice within the service and help develop and deliver innovative solutions, providing a high-quality, cost-effective, and efficient equipment loan service.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Working with the senior management team, referrers, commissioners, suppliers, and operational teams to successfully deliver a person-centred Community Equipment Service that supports individuals accessing the right equipment to support their needs at the right time.
• Providing comprehensive, specialist support and advice to referrers into the service and the managers and colleagues within the service in order to maximise the recycling of special equipment, including review and oversight of special orders.
• Providing expert advice and clinical reasoning on the supply, suitability, and procurement of equipment into and from the service.
• To work jointly with the CES managers and commissioners to identify and initiate evidence-based audits and projects, to understand and analyse the data and prepare written reports.
• Working collaboratively with health & social care professionals and CES commissioners in the development of best practice for the future provision of equipment, ensuring good clinical governance and safe working practices.
• To support and deliver training and demonstration sessions according to the needs of the contract.
• Joint working with CES managers to ensure catalogue systems and accurate information are in place to maximise utilisation and ensure best value for money.

About you:

Above all, you will identify and align with our company values:

• We keep our promises.
• We empower people to be accountable for their actions and performance.
• We help people with empathy, courtesy, dignity and kindness.
• We show respect and are trusted by our colleagues, suppliers and customers.
• We believe in teamwork and are passionate about our work.
• We encourage innovation and the development of technology.
• We embrace change and seek to achieve excellence.
• We deliver cost effective, efficient and safe healthcare solutions.

Qualifications and experience required:

• Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy
• To be registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Significant post-qualification experience at a senior level
• Significant experience of community equipment services, particularly with 'specials'.
• Solid IT skills to use Microsoft Office packages and multiple in-house systems.

What we offer:

• HCPC Registration Costs
• RCOT Membership Costs
• Membership of NAEP
• 33 days (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Continued professional development, training and learning support and opportunities for career progression.
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Care First employee assistance program including free counselling.
• Access to Perkbox discount platform
• Free DBS check

We welcome applications from all sections of the Community as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are also happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it, please let us know.

We take our data privacy seriously and commit to processing your data in line with GDPR guidelines. Medequip’s Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with our recruitment processes.

This role may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without satisfactory right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable.