Community Equipment Technician

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking a Community Equipment Technician to facilitate timely patient discharges and manage the delivery of medical equipment. The role demands strong communication skills, the ability to prioritize workloads, and maintaining safety protocols. Applicants must have a valid driving license and experience with delivery vehicles. This position involves teamwork and requires dealing sensitively with patients and families.

Qualifications

• A good knowledge of the major access routes in and around the Merseyside area.
• Ability to prioritise own workload effectively.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills required.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise workload to meet delivery schedules and facilitate hospital discharge.
• Deliver, assemble, and collect equipment from people's home addresses.
• Set up and demonstrate the safe use of manual and electrical equipment.

Skills

Knowledge of major access routes in Merseyside

Ability to prioritise own workload

Effective communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work effectively within teams

Education

Full Clean Driving Licence for Category B1 & above

GCSE or equivalent

Tools

Delivery vehicle (3.5 tons and above)

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.

Main duties of the job

Prioritise workload to meet delivery schedules and facilitate hospital discharge for patients/service usersUndertake a risk assessment of the patient's/service user's environment for the safe delivery and installation of equipmentTo deliver, assemble and collect equipment from people's home addresses.To set up and demonstrate the safe use of manual and electrical equipment to patients, service users and carersSupport and deal sensitively with recently bereaved families and carers when collecting equipmentAdhere to delivery schedulesTo 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.

To attend health and safety and equipment awareness training to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledgeReport any adverse incidents using the events reporting procedure.

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Prioritise workload to meet delivery schedules and facilitate hospital discharge for patients/service usersUndertake a risk assessment of the patients/service user's environment for the safe delivery and installation of equipmentTo deliver, assemble and collect equipment from peoples home addresses.To set up and demonstrate the safe use of manual and electrical equipment to patients, service users and carersSupport and deal sensitively with recently bereaved families and carers when collecting equipmentAdhere to delivery schedulesTo 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.

Person Specification

Skills

• A good knowledge of the major access routes in and around the Merseyside area
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively within teams

Knowledge/Experience

• Previous experience of driving delivery vehicle of 3.5 tones and above

Qualifications

• Full Clean Driving Licence for Category B1 & above
• GCSE or equivalent

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.