* 3rd Jan 2025 Kingston upon Thames, London
Duration: Initially 3 months
Hours: 37 hours per week
Rate: £280 umbrella a day (£223 PAYE a day)
The Royal Borough of Kingston is looking for an Equipment Lead to join their Adult Social Care Division. 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, ensuring excellence in this practice area.
Responsibilities:
1. Enabling evidence-based decision-making for equipment provision.
2. Joint working with acute hospital colleagues as well as a range of community health and social care professionals prescribing community equipment.
3. Work in partnership with Adult Social Care commissioning leads, contracts leads, nursing leads, OT leads, and providers to support the governance, training, and familiarization of equipment, ensuring robust standards of practice within the prescription process.
Requirements:
1. Outstanding communication, problem-solving, and reasoning skills, as well as the ability to analyze and monitor performance and invoicing data.
2. Extensive knowledge of community equipment and its application in supporting people to remain in the community.
3. Experience of data systems (TCES & Google Sheets or Excel) – reporting, monitoring, and prescribing.
4. Experience of community equipment pathways.
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