Clinical Advisor

Occupational Therapist
- Clinical Advisor

Competitive salary and benefits - depending on experience

Location: Roche, Cornwall

Post: 37.5hrs hours full time post

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing clinical team in Medequip and be part of our new Community Equipment Services (CES) for Cornwall. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Occupational Therapist to provide expert advice and support to prescribers, commissioners, operational staff, and the community.

You will use your expert 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 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.
- 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 Cornwall Community Equipment Service is based at our new depot in Roche and you will be working alongside depot managers and staff to support the contract.

Our national clinical team has strong peer support, CPD, induction and supervision structures in place under the management of the Head of Clinical Services.

The Benefits
- 33 days holiday (pro rata) (inclusive of Bank Holidays )
- Continuous training, development & management support
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme including free counselling
- Opportunities for career progression
- HCPC Registration Costs
- RCOT Membership Costs
- Membership of NAEP

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.

Pay: From £40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person