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Posted:
27.05.2025
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11.07.2025
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Job Description:
Job Reference:HCC621141
Salary Range:£26,918 - £29,616 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
The Role:
As an Equipment Installation Technician, you’ll follow the guidance of an Occupational Therapist to install and construct standard and bespoke minor aids and adaptations to ensure vulnerable people in Hampshire can live independently.
You’ll receive full training and support to enhance your practical skills. If you’re unsure whether your experience matches what we’re looking for, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
What you’ll do:
* Install, repair and collect standard and specialist equipment in service users’ homes across Hampshire.
* Demonstrate how to safely operate, maintain and clean equipment to service users, carers and healthcare professionals.
* Efficiently manage and schedule your own workload.
* Lift and move equipment weighing up to 25KG.
What we’re looking for:
* A valid full UK driving licence.
* General knowledge of building skills, operating small workshop machinery and power tools, fixing methods and fault-finding techniques.
* Commitment to demonstrating our values and behaviours, showing compassion, empathy and respect.
* Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.
* Physically able to undertake the moving and handling of equipment up to 25KG.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Equipment Installation Technician role,team and our values.The section‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about.Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements anddemonstrate our values, in your application.
Why join us?
* Change lives: Collaborate with service users, Occupational Therapists and healthcare professionals to maximise independence and improve daily living for vulnerable people in Hampshire.For more information on how you’ll make a difference, please visit our Reablement website.
* Professional development: Enhance your practical skills through continuous learning and supportive supervision.
* Flexible working: Enjoy working in diverse environments including community settings, service users’ homes, and with the wider team in the workshop.
* Employee support: Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
* Competitive benefits package: Including generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information here .
Working Patterns
The working hours for this position follow a current pattern of, Monday – Friday, 8am – 4.30pm.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.
Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.
Other roles you may have experience in may include: Handyman, Tradesperson, Equipment Installation Technician, Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Multi Skilled Engineer, Engineering Assessor, Machinery Surveyor, Inspection and Testing Administrator, Equipment Maintenance Technician, Field Service Technician.
Travel Requirements:
You will be required to drive a Council vehicle and must hold a current full drivers’ licence.
Values Based Recruitment:
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Vetting Requirements:
This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Alex Marks, Operational Manager on [emailprotected] or 07718 146814 / 03707 798529.
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
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