Community Equipment Technician | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking Community Equipment Technicians to facilitate timely patient discharge and support re-enablement in the community. You will manage equipment delivery, assembly, and installation, ensuring safety and adherence to schedules. Ideal candidates will be empathetic and able to work with diverse teams and patients, including bereaved families during equipment collection. This role offers valuable experience in a supportive environment.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise workload to meet delivery schedules.
• Undertake risk assessments for safe equipment delivery.
• Deliver, assemble, and collect equipment from homes.
• Set up and demonstrate equipment use to patients.
• Support bereaved families sensitively during equipment collection.
• Adhere to health and safety practices.

Job description

Overview

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
• To 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 carers
• Support and deal sensitively with recently bereaved families and carers when collecting equipment
• Adhere to delivery schedules
• To 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 knowledge

Report any adverse incidents using the events reporting procedure.

About the Employer

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.

Additional Information

This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025