Community Equipment Occupational Therapist /Clinical advisor

Main area Occupational Therapy in the Community Grade Salary Ranges: 45,001 - 55,000 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

40 hours per week (A minimum of 25 hours considered.) Job ref 828-PEH048

Employer Provide Equipment Hub Employer type Public (Non NHS) Site Provide Equipment Hub Town Croydon Salary 45,001-55,000 Closing 07/08/2026 23:59

Provide Equipment Hub Limited delivers community equipment and related services that enable people to remain safe, independent and connected in their homes and communities. We work in partnership with residents, carers, prescribers, commissioners, health and social care organisations, suppliers and operational teams to provide clinically appropriate, timely, sustainable and value-driven solutions.

Our Vision Is

Empowering communities, enriching lives through excellence, care and value.

Our Work Is Underpinned By Three Core Values

Compassion – placing people at the heart of our decisions and treating everyone with dignity, empathy and respect.

Excellence – striving for consistently high standards, strong outcomes and continuous improvement.

Innovation – embracing new ideas, evidence, technology and ways of working to improve services and deliver better value.

The Community Equipment Clinical Therapist / Clinical Advisor will provide accessible, day-to-day clinical expertise to the prescriber community, helping professionals make safe, proportionate and person-centred equipment decisions.

Working across children’s and adult services, health and social care, the postholder will support prescribers to identify the most appropriate equipment, minor adaptations and assistive solutions based on each person’s needs, goals, strengths, risks and home circumstances. The central purpose of the role is to help ensure that people receive the right support, at the right time and in the right way, promoting independence, dignity, safety and quality of life.

• Equipment pathway, prescribing and operational support
• Catalogue, product evaluation and procurement
• Clinical governance, quality and safety
• Prescriber development, training and engagement

Provide accessible, evidence-based advice to clinical and non-clinical prescribers on the selection, specification, safe use and review of community equipment, minor adaptations and related assistive solutions.

Provide expert advice on complex, unusual, high-risk or high-cost cases, including special and bespoke orders, while ensuring that the prescribing professional retains responsibility for the individual clinical decision.

Promote person-centred, strengths-based and proportionate approaches that balance clinical need, independence, dignity, risk, prevention and value.

Support consistent decision-making across children’s and adults’ services and across health, social care, education and housing interfaces.

Escalate unsafe, inappropriate or potentially non-compliant practice and support timely corrective action.

Maintain an up-to-date understanding of relevant clinical evidence, professional standards, legislation, national guidance and emerging assistive technologies.

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide Equipment Hub, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
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• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the Recruitment Team on 0300 3030 2661 or Sign in to view email

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the Recruitment team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide Equipment Hub may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.