Community Equipment Technician

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in England is seeking a Community Equipment Technician to ensure timely discharge of patients from secondary care. The role involves delivering, installing, and demonstrating equipment in patients' homes, requiring effective communication within a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates should have experience in managing delivery schedules and performing risk assessments. Flexible working requests are considered.

Qualifications

• Ability to prioritise workload according to delivery schedules.
• Experience in risk assessment for safe delivery and installation of equipment.
• Effective communication skills for liaising with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise workload to meet delivery schedules for patient discharge.
• Deliver and set up equipment in patients' homes.
• Support families sensitively during equipment collection.

Job description

Community Equipment Technicians play an important role in the timely discharge of patients from secondary care and the re-enablement of patients in the community who have long-term conditions. The post holder will be required to prioritise their workload according to delivery schedules, load, transport, deliver and set up equipment. Liaise and communicate effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise workload to meet delivery schedules and facilitate hospital discharge for patients/service users.
• Undertake a risk assessment of the patient’s/service user's environment for the safe delivery and installation of equipment.
• Deliver, assemble and collect equipment from people’s home addresses.
• Set up and demonstrate the safe use of manual and electrical equipment to patients, service users and carers.
• Support and deal sensitively with recently bereaved families and carers when collecting equipment.
• Adhere to delivery schedules.
• Take reasonable care of the health and safety of themselves and others in the working environment, and comply with instructions on safe moving and handling practices.
• Attend health and safety and equipment awareness training to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge.
• Report any adverse incidents using the events reporting procedure.
• Work in an efficient, effective and economic manner, both as an individual or as part of a team, to provide continuously improving service to our service users.

The post holder will be required to undertake work in an efficient, effective and economic manner, both as an individual or as part of a team, to provide continuously improving service to our service users.

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: Gareth Jensen Job title: Logistics Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0151 295 9800