Assistant Practitioner - Equipment Advisory Service

Mersey care are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join their innovative and dynamic Equipment Advisory Service (EAS), working to support Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton Community Equipment Services. The positions could be suitable for an existing Assistant Practitioner or a Health Care Assistant with the right level of experience.

Your key role would be to support the qualified clinical equipment advisers in the assessment of adults and children for safe and suitable community equipment provision, providing and sharing your knowledge and skills in relation to assessment and provision of community equipment.

Ongoing training in relation to assessment skills and equipment available will be provided.

The service works collaboratively with many other services around Liverpool and are always open to new ways of working together to ensure safe and effective equipment is provided in a timely manner.

For any further details or to arrange an informal discussion or visit please contact Rebecca Murphy, Clinical Lead - EAS: rebec or Tel:.

To give advice on appropriate community equipment within the patient home environment.

To support with the review of Care homes across all areas to ensure appropriate use of equipment and to encourage return of unused equipment.

To Support the prescribing of equipment in the community, to prevent hospital admissions and promote safe discharges from secondary care.

To assist the Clinical lead with training and education on safe and appropriate prescribing of equipment in the community setting.

To manage own caseload and work autonomously.

Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff

Undertake risk assessments on defined patient in line with relevant guidelines.

Support with procurement exercises for all community equipment services.

Support with duty on a day to day basis responding to telephone and email enquiries.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Rebecca Murphy

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Clinical Lead EAS Email address:
Rebec Telephone number: