Driver Technician

Hammonds Furniture Limited; Telford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Driver Technician
Salary: £22,425 per annum PLUS on-call and overtime pay.
Home depot: Unit B1-B2 Harcourt Trading Estate, Halesfield 13, Telford TF7 4PL

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a forward-thinking care provider, who’ll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field!

Join us as a Driver Technician at Medequip and let us empower you to truly make a difference.

You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever-developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values and ways. We are all aligned in providing the most person-centred approach to care.

Who Are We?

Medequip is the leading provider of community equipment services to local authorities and the NHS across the UK, delivering a wide range of equipment and support to people in their own homes, keeping people independent for longer.

Our mission is to help people stay independent for longer, with their families, in their own homes.

About the Role

As the Driver Technician for Medequip Assistive Technologies, you will be delivering and installing health-related products that help our customers remain independent in their own homes for longer. This is not just a delivery and installation role; you will be pivotal in providing life-enhancing equipment, a second-to-none customer service experience, and assurance that Medequip is a trusted and reliable organization.

This role will require you to work to suit the needs of the business and participate in an emergency on-call rota.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Driving to customer’s homes and services, acting in a respectful, polite, and approachable manner.
• Delivering, collecting, and installing healthcare equipment in our customers’ homes.
• Demonstrating the use and functionality of the equipment to our customers.
• Delivering exceptional customer-facing service with care, empathy, integrity, and kindness.
• Loading equipment onto and off the van, carrying it in and out of customer’s homes.
• Performing basic DIY tasks.
• You will be on the road in the local area in a Medequip branded van, representing the company at all times in a professional manner.
• Being flexible with working days/hours to suit the needs of the business.
• Participating in an emergency on-call rota.
• Enhancing the lives of our customers by providing medical and care equipment and a first-class service with every home visit.

About You

Above all, you will identify and align with our company values:

• We empower people to be accountable for their actions and performance.
• We help people with empathy, courtesy, dignity, and kindness.
• We show respect and are trusted by our colleagues, suppliers, and customers.
• We believe in teamwork and are passionate about our work.
• We encourage innovation and the development of technology.
• We embrace change and seek to achieve excellence.
• We deliver cost-effective, efficient, and safe healthcare solutions.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• You must have a full UK driving licence (minimum of 3 years).
• Work well independently and as part of a team.
• Must have good communication skills.
• Be flexible with working days/hours to suit the needs of the business and participate in an emergency on-call rota.

What We Offer

• Continued professional development, training, and learning support and opportunities for career progression.
• Van provided for travel to and from work.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Care First employee assistance program including free counselling.
• Access to Perkbox discount platform.
• Free uniform.
• Free DBS check.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are also happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it; please let us know.

We take our data privacy seriously and commit to processing your data in line with GDPR guidelines. Medequip’s Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with our recruitment processes.

This role may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without satisfactory right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable.