Job Description
We are seeking a practical, reliable and compassionateCommunity Equipment Store Operativeto join our Inverness team. This essential role supports individuals to maintain independence at home by delivering, installing and collecting a wide range of community equipment following clinical assessment.
Community equipment ranges from small toileting aids to profiling beds, and you will play a key part in ensuring items are delivered safely, fitted correctly and kept clean, safe and ready for use. The role also includes responsibilities within our store/warehouse environment.
About the Role
As a Community Equipment Store Operative, you will:
1. Pick, prepare and load equipment for delivery
2. Contact patients, clients or carers to arrange deliveries and uplifts
3. Deliver, install and collect community equipment in peoples homes
4. Carry out basic risk assessments to ensure equipment suitability
5. Assemble equipment following manufacturer instructions and provide basic technical guidance to users, carers and healthcare staff
6. Transfer equipment between the main Inverness store and emergency/buffer stores
7. Segregate and return dirty equipment for decontamination
8. Decontaminate equipment in line with NHS Highland Infection Control Protocols, including safe use of a thermal decont...