Occupational Therapist / Clinical Advisor

Occupational Therapist / Clinical Advisor 
Emerson's Green

Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive DOE

This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward-thinking community equipment services provider, who’ll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field! 

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 person-centred support.

You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values.

Who are Medequip? 

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. 

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing clinical team and play a key role within our Community Equipment Services (CES) for the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) contract.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Occupational Therapist to provide expert equipment advice and clinical support to prescribers, commissioners, operational teams, and the wider community. Using your specialist knowledge, you will help ensure best practice across the service while contributing to the development of innovative, high-quality, cost-effective equipment solutions.

As a values-driven organisation, Medequip places equal emphasis on how results are achieved as well as what is achieved. Safety, empathy, respect, teamwork and excellence underpin everything we do.

As a Clinical Advisor / Occupational Therapist, you will work closely with senior management, referrers, commissioners, suppliers and operational teams to deliver a person-centred Community Equipment Service. Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing comprehensive specialist advice and support to referrers, managers and colleagues, including oversight and review of special equipment orders
• Offering expert clinical reasoning on the supply, suitability and procurement of equipment
• Supporting the recycling and re-use of specialist equipment wherever possible
• Working collaboratively with health and social care professionals and CES commissioners to develop best practice and ensure strong clinical governance
• Delivering training and demonstration sessions in line with contract requirements
• Working jointly with CES managers to ensure catalogues and systems are accurate, maximising utilisation and value for money

The BNSSG contract operates from two depots: Emerson’s Green and Weston-super-Mare. Both depots have an Occupational Therapist on site, working collaboratively to meet service needs.

You will also be part of our national clinical team, benefitting from strong peer support, structured induction, supervision and ongoing CPD under the leadership of the Head of Clinical Services.
? Find out more about our clinical team here: https://www.medequip-uk.com/clinical

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
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Significant post-qualification experience at a senior level
• Strong experience within Community Equipment Services, particularly with specialist (“specials”) equipment
• Solid IT skills, including Microsoft Office and multiple in-house systems

What we offer

• HCPC registration costs covered
• RCOT membership costs covered
• Membership of NAEP
• 33 days’ annual leave (including Bank Holidays)
• Ongoing professional development, training and learning support
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Care First Employee Assistance Programme, including free counselling
• Access to Perkbox discounts and Blue Light Card
• Free enhanced DBS check

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Fiona Wasdell-Bowyer, Head of Clinical Services, at Fiona.Wasdell-Bowyer@medequip-uk.com

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.