Main area Liverpool Equipment Service (CEDAS) Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent: Vacancy base will be Merseyreach Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week 5 day shift over 7 day rota.) Job ref 350-CC7276016
Site Liverpool Community Equipment Service Town Liverpool Salary £24,625 - £25,674 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/06/2025 23:59
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
Person specification
Skills
* A good knowledge of the major access routes in and around the Merseyside area
* Ability to prioritise own workload
* Effective communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to work effectively within teams
Knowledge/Experience
* Previous experience of driving delivery vehicle of 3.5 tones and above
Qualifications
* Full Clean Driving Licence for Category B1 & above
* GCSE or equivalent
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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