Equipment Technician

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the North West is seeking an Equipment Technician to support their Community Equipment Service. The role involves refurbishing and maintaining equipment before dispatch to assist people in the community. Ideal candidates will have a collaborative mindset and a commitment to improving service quality and efficiency. This role offers an opportunity to impact patient care positively.

Qualifications

• Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a team.
• Experience in refurbishing and servicing equipment.
• Commitment to improving service quality.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering refurbishing service for community equipment.
• Ensure all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired, and serviced.
• Work both individually and as part of a team to improve service.

Job description

The Equipment Technician will work within CEDAS (Community Equipment Disability Advisory Service). The Community Equipment Service aims to provide an effective and efficient service to the Liverpool area, supporting people of all ages with equipment provisions. The service supports the delivery of equipment to assist in safe discharges from hospital, pressure care needs, end-of-life care, moving and handling, and supporting independence. As part of the Community Equipment model, the service collects, decontaminates, refurbishes, services, and maintains equipment.

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an Equipment Technician. The post holder will assist in delivering an excellent refurbishing service, ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired, and serviced in the warehouse prior to dispatch into the community.

The post holder will be required to undertake work efficiently, effectively, and economically, both as an individual and as part of a team, to provide a 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. The trust is 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 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 their best work and collaborate with service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services. We are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve service quality and reduce costs safely.