The Role: Equipment Lead

Job Purpose:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join the Adult Social Care Division (ASC) as Equipment Lead.This is a unique role that supports a system wide approach across Health and Social Care to ensure the appropriate and cost effective prescription of assistive equipment and minor adaptations and ensuring excellence in this practice area.You will be responsible for enabling evidence-based decision making for equipment provision and integral to this role is joint working with acute hospital colleagues, as well as a range of community health and social care professionals prescribing community equipment.The Equipment Lead will work in partnership with Adult Social Care commissioning leads, contract leads, nursing leads, OT leads, and providers to support the governance, training and familiarisation of equipment and ensure robust standards of practice within the prescription process.

Main duties of the role:? This role will support the overall budget and resource management objectives also involving some duties towards management of the budget.? This role will form part of a strong collaboration, to ensure high quality, evidence based provision of equipment for residents of Kingston.? The role will assist in monthly reconciliations on the invoicing so as to help towards keeping on top of the spend.? The post holder will also deliver equipment training and demos.? The post holder will be responsible for organising and chairing the equipment operational meeting.? The role will deal with escalations and give advice on general equipment prescriptions and keeping the equipment catalogue up to date.? The post holder will be required to issue/allocate PINs correctly, clearing duplication, checking recycled equipment and monitor collections.? The post holder will liaise regularly with the commissioning lead to work on discrepancies with equipment billing backing data and assist with queries.

Education:

• Qualified Occupational Therapist and registration with Health and Social Care Professional Council (HSCPC)
• Has knowledge and practice of project management coordination and workload management
• Has knowledge of contract monitoring techniques and invoicing mechanisms/tools
• Has experience in PIN allocation / duplication clearance of pins and use of reporting systems/tools, TCES for example.
• Knowledge of current health and social care provision across primary and secondary care
• ? Ability to develop strong working relationships with good interpersonal skills, particularly where there are complex relational dynamics or distressing situations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills including influencing and negotiating skills
• ? Knowledge and understanding of service/profession and organisational links, systems and structures
• ? Awareness of National NHS policies and strategies-including clinical governance, evidence based practice, NHS plan, NSF's etc
• ? Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
• ? Health, safety and risk awareness

Required Experience

• Experience of working across health and social care systems, with multiple stakeholders and as part of a team
• Extensive experience of assessing for and reviewing community equipment
• Experience of independently managing and prioritising demands and tasks to meet objectives
• Moving and handling experience