Equipment Technician

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

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking an Equipment Technician to enhance their refurbishing service. The role includes repairing and servicing equipment, managing stock control systems, and ensuring efficient operations. Candidates should have attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and experience with electrical safety testing. Flexible working arrangements may be considered.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Ability to organise workload efficiently.
• Experience with repairs and servicing of equipment.
• Understanding of stock control systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering the refurbishing service and equipment categorisation.
• Perform repairs and testing of equipment in various environments.
• Ensure accurate stock control using computerized systems.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Electrical safety testing

Job description

Overview

The Equipment Technician will work within CEDAS (Community Equipment Disability Advisory Service) 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 in an efficient, effective and economical manner, both as an individual or 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 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 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. Were 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.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Clinical Engineer Technician and the Logistics Coordinator in delivering an excellent refurbishing service, ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired and serviced in stores prior to dispatch into the community.
• Repairs and servicing of CEDAS equipment on-site at base or in the community in service user residential environments, including electrical safety testing / PAT testing.
• Ensure the correct parts required are available for daily schedules.
• Ability to problem solve and pay attention to detail.
• Take instructions from managers by completing the delegated workload.
• Organise own workload to maximise efficiency.
• Condemn equipment that is beyond economical repair following procedures and requesting sign-off.
• Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area, including establishment of systems and processes to provide effective stock management of equipment.
• Maintain accurate stock control systems using a computerised system where possible.
• Update systems regarding items of equipment required for repair, service and maintenance.
• Assist in the completion of categorisation of manual wheelchairs to be repaired or refurbished in stores.
• Salvage parts from equipment that have been quality inspected for reuse in line with the service sustainability aim.
• Deliver and assist with the Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) of manual wheelchairs/equipment.
• Deliver, participate and support in self/staff development of training activities/programmes as required.
• Carry out weekly/monthly stock checks of all spare parts required for PPM and maintain specialist equipment, and participate in the annual stock take as required.
• Receive all deliveries of spare parts, equipment and storage of the same as appropriate, ensure all equipment is processed onto the stock control system and located within the stores environment.
• Identify and report all defective materials received into stores directly to the line manager and organise remedial action as required.
• In times of service BCP or staffing shortages, the post holder would be expected to cover roles within the banding remit, for this role that would include driving, delivering and fitting of community equipment, collection and decontamination of equipment.

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