Occupational Therapist - Community Equipment Service

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Occupational Therapist for its client's Community Equipment Service Team at Solihull.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an OT with strong community equipment, physical disability, moving and handling and multidisciplinary experience, providing specialist clinical advice and supporting the safe, effective and cost-efficient provision of equipment across health and social care.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Provide a primary point of clinical contact for the Community Equipment Service, offering specialist Occupational Therapy advice to health and social care practitioners
• Assess and review service users’ needs and make evidence-based recommendations for standard and non-standard community equipment
• Provide professional advice and constructive challenge to prescribers, ensuring existing equipment and stock are fully utilised wherever appropriate
• Complete and support specialist assessments involving hoists, standing frames, sliding sheets/boards and other complex equipment
• Review equipment provision and identify when equipment is no longer required, supporting its safe return, servicing and re-use
• Manage referrals and waiting lists for non-standard equipment through effective triage and liaison with referring professionals
• Support the development of integrated pathways and consistent assessment processes across health and social care
• Provide training, advice and presentations to practitioners to improve knowledge and confidence around specialist community equipment
• Work collaboratively with service users, carers, families, health professionals, social care colleagues, suppliers and external agencies
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit, risk management, policy development and service improvement initiatives
• Provide professional supervision, guidance and support to staff, students and less experienced practitioners where required
• Support the cost-effective management of high-value and complex equipment while maintaining a strong focus on safety and positive outcomes for service users
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive records and manage workload effectively in line with service priorities

Qualifications & Experience:

• To be successful in this role you must have, Occupational Therapy Degree/Diploma
• Current HCPC registration
• Experience working with people with physical disabilities and complex functional needs
• Experience assessing, reviewing and prescribing community equipment
• Strong knowledge of moving and handling equipment, including hoists, standing frames and sliding sheets/boards
• Excellent clinical reasoning, risk management and evidence-based decision-making skills
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary health and social care environment
• Ability to professionally challenge and advise other practitioners where required
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly
• Ability to organise and prioritise a demanding workload and work independently
• Why Liquid Personnel?
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
• Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
• Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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