Occupational Therapist (TEC)
Rotherham
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £45,000.00
This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward-thinking care provider, who’ll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field!
Join us as our new Occupational Therapist (TEC) at Medequip Connect 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 person-centred care.
You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values and ways.
Who are Medequip Connect?
Medequip Connect provide services to over 10,000 people nationwide with the objective of providing reassurance and support to older, disabled or vulnerable people allowing them to remain safely in their own home.
We help people to maintain people’s independence by providing Technology Enabled Care (TEC) and a range of associated equipment that gives them the confidence of knowing that assistance is available at any time, 24 hours a day. Our care technology services provide peace of mind to you, your family, and your friends.
About the role
As the Occupational Therapist (TEC) for Medequip Connect, you will be undertaking assessments for TEC cases, and providing advice and support to non-professional assessment staff in their roles. You will support the National Clinical Lead for TEC in the development of assessment processes and functions for Connect, including new product research and best practice guidance across the service. You will support operational teams with service delivery, overseeing safeguarding queries and helping to ensure compliance with both local and national guidance and requirements
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Case Management
- Hold an independent caseload of service users within the Rotherham TEC service and from other Medequip Connect TEC services nationally as required.
- Assess service users via a series of video and/or face-to-face appointments as required, with the aim to provide TEC supporting SU safety, wellbeing and independence, according to agreed local criteria and guidance.
- Prescribe equipment as required, arranging trials where appropriate. Prescriptions will include appropriate technical detail to ensure correct provision/ installation by TEC Installer Assessors.
- Provide instruction and training to ensure complex equipment is used safely. This may be to service user, service user’s family, and/or service user’s carers and other associated health and social care professionals
- Conduct reviews of service users to evaluate trials, or ensure that equipment is safe and being used optimally from both a clinical and technical point of view
- Work in varied locations across our region to visit service users as Medequip Connect’s contract portfolio operates nationally.
- Maintain accurate case records and support audits as required.
- Provide expert assessment advice, and support to other clinical / assessment staff within the team on more complex cases.
- Technical Knowledge
- To be a subject matter expert in TEC to support and help develop best practice policies, protocols and quality risk assessment frameworks, ensuring good clinical governance and safe working practices.
- Keep updated with developments in TEC, utilising best practice, new product innovations, and evidenced based practice.
- Work with 3rd party TEC suppliers to keep up to date with their product ranges, and understand how their products can be integrated and customised to provide optimal solutions to individual service user cases
- Support National Clinical Lead for TEC and the Technical Support Manager to ensure best quality product information is available to prescribers and customers to support selection and understanding of equipment.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting for service users and carers
- Have a good working knowledge and understanding of the range of equipment issued by the service and be confident and competent in its use and limitations. This includes:
- Assistive technologies such as alarms and trigger devices
- Various sensors to detect events such as falls, fire, flood, etc.
- Activities for Daily Living (ADL) sensors designed to detect movement, mobility levels, routine changes, electrical device/appliance usage, heat and light changes, etc.
- ADL AI/Machine learning platforms
- Video calling and medication compliance solutions
- Home automation and property ingress/egress solutions
- Mobile devices and GPS enabled technologies
- Managerial and other
- Utilise supervision, training opportunities and reflective practice to ensure own professional development and accreditation.
- Supervise the work of TEC Installer Assessors and assist with the supervision of OT students and assistants as required.
- Support Rotherham TEC Installer Assessors to provide safe, compliant, and caring services through delivery of protocols, guidance, risk assessments and competency frameworks.
- To be the Safeguarding champion for the Rotherham TEC service, liaising with National Clinical Lead for TEC, Medequip’s DSL and all relevant external bodies as required.
- Take part in audits (such as the annual TSA audits)
- Take part in research as directed by the National Clinical Lead for TEC
- Lead on specific projects as directed by the National Clinical Lead for TEC.
- Attend team meetings as required, to ensure that local, team, and national policies are followed. Contribute to development of new policies.
- Support and facilitate equipment review groups for stakeholders in Rotherham TEC as required.
- Play a leading role in developing and reporting on Benefits realisation for Rotherham TEC to demonstrate the impact of TEC for contract monitoring and wider Health and Social care systems.
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 OT
- Registered with HCPC
- Post qual experience at a senior level
- Ability to complete complex TEC assessments and risk assessments
- Full UK Driving Licence
What we offer
- 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
- Free eye test, provided by Specsavers
- 15% Manage At Home discount
- 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.
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