Therapy Lead - Integrated Community Equipment Loan Service

The Integrated Community Equipment Loan Service (ICELS) is looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join their Clinical Team and provide dedicated support to enhance and improve the provision of equipment and support commissioning partners to deliver a high-quality service, drive efficiencies and achieve value for money. ICELS is a jointly funded service across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland (LLR) Local Authorities & the NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups for LLR. Leicester City Council is the host organisation for the service & manages the delivery of the service on behalf of all partner organisations. ICELS provides loan equipment to adults, young people & children in the community, in education settings & in care settings. The service is a key part of both health & social care strategies which are aimed at supporting those that need it to be independent at home/school, live at home with support, be treated in their own homes rather than in hospital settings & be discharged from hospital quickly when medically fit. The service also supports hospital/care admission avoidance & intensive community support/rehabilitation when needed. The position will be based at the Equipment Providers Depot in Glen Parva, however this service operates an office and home working approach. The post holder may need to travel to other health or social care sites across LLR.,

• To provide specialist therapy support for the ICELS and health and social care professionals using the service.
• To lead on improvement and efficiencies around provision of equipment across all settings.
• To be responsible for the co-ordination of services and effective liaison between internal and external agencies to promote optimum equipment provision.
• To be responsible for specialist equipment pathways to support and monitor the equality of equipment provision and to identify and promote areas for service improvement.
• To improve the use of recycled equipment across the LLR health and social care system.
• To work with suppliers to deliver efficiencies and value for money in purchase of equipment for the LLR system.
• To manage, support and provide specialist knowledge to the Special Equipment panels operating for LLR.
• To work collaboratively with senior practitioners across LLR including adult and paediatric services in health, disabled childrens services in local authorities, SEND and educational establishments.
• To be responsible for recording and monitoring of data specific to work of the ICELS Team and for presenting information to the ICELS Partnership board and Commissioning Boards as well as reporting on the delivery of the demand management action plan work and its associated targets set by Commissioners.
• To co-ordinate review procedures for specialist equipment and to support and develop policy and procedures for provision of equipment., working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri
  
  We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied