Occupational Therapist / Clinical Advisor

Occupational Therapist- Clinical Advisor
Weston-Super Mare

Salary: Competitive salary and benefits – depending on experience
Hours: 18 -26 hours part time post. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing clinical team and be part of our Community Equipment Services (CES) for the Bristol, North Sommerset and South Gloucestershire contract (BNSSG). 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 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.

Medequip, as a values-driven organisation, places an emphasis not only on results but also on how those results are achieved. There is particular focus on safety, empathy, respect, teamwork, and excellence in all we do.

The Role

As the Clinical Advisor/ Occupational Therapist, you will work 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. You will have extensive experience and have undertaken either management or specialist roles in your field of work. The role includes:

• Providing comprehensive, specialist support and advice to referrers into the service and the managers and colleagues within the service 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.
• 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.

The contract for BNSSG has two depots: one at Emerson’s Green and one at Weston-Super Mare. Both depots will have an OT on site and work together to meet the needs of the service.

Our national clinical team has strong peer support, CPD, induction and supervision structures in place under the management of the Head of Clinical Services.  You can find out more about the team here: https://www.medequip-uk.com/clinical

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

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
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Care First employee assistance program including free counselling.
• Access to Perkbox discount platform and Blue Light Card.
• Free DBS check If you are interested in a role where you can work in a great team with great benefits and carry out a role where you can add value to our customers’ lives every day, then this is the role for you. 

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 is 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

If you have any questions about the role, you can contact our Head of Clinical Services, Fiona Wasdell-Bowyer, direct on Fiona.Wasdell-Bowyer@medequip-uk.com.