Community Equipment Assistant

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health provider is seeking a Community Equipment Assistant to manage equipment logistics. In this role, you will be responsible for moving equipment within the warehouse, decontaminating returned items, and delivering equipment to patients' homes. Strong teamwork and communication skills are essential. Flexible working requests are considered.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate team working abilities and good communication skills.
• Experience in fitting, assembling, and dismantling equipment.

Responsibilities

• Deal with the movement of equipment within the warehouse.
• Decontaminate all returned equipment and quality check items.
• Deliver equipment to patients in their homes.

Skills

Team working abilities

Good communication skills

Experience in fitting, assembling, and dismantling equipment

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is a leading provider of community services, mental health care, physical care, addiction services, and learning disability care. Working as part of our service, you will be able to demonstrate team working abilities, good communication skills, and experience in fitting, assembling, and dismantling equipment.

The Community Equipment Service has visible and responsive leadership, setting standards for others and role-modelled throughout the division for all managers.

Community Equipment Assistants play an important role in the day-to-day work of the service, dealing with the movement of equipment within the warehouse, decontaminating all returned equipment, quality checking items, adhering to Trust policies and procedures, and loading and unloading equipment onto Trust vehicles, adhering to manual handling training.

This post involves delivering equipment to patients in their homes.

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 also commissioned for services covering the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services supporting physical and mental health, including specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK offering 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 their best work and collaborate with service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services. We are currently implementing a programme of organizational and service transformation to improve service quality and reduce costs safely.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Gareth Jensen
• Job title: Logistics Manager
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]