Job summary
Employer heading
Community Equipment Assistant
Band 2
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Job overview
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is a leading provider of community services, mental health care, physical care, addiction services and learning disability care, working as part of our service you will be able to demonstrate team working abilities, good communication skills and experience of fitting, assembling and dismantling of equipment
The Community Equipment Service has visible and responsive leadership, setting the standards for others and role modelled throughout the division for all managers.
Main duties of the job
Community Equipment Assistants play an important role in the day to day work of the service dealing with the movement of equipment within the warehouse, decontaminating all returned equipment adhering to Trust policies and procedures, loading and unloading of equipment onto Trust vehicles adhering to manual handling training.
This post will involve delivering equipment to patients in their homes.
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
Community Equipment Assistants assist in cleaning and refurbishment of all returned equipment.
Move equipment around the warehouse from the cleaning area to main storage areas.
Assist the drivers in the deliveries and collections of equipment.
Comply with health and safety requirements when handling equipment.
Communicate effectively with the team.
Undertake general warehouse and storekeeping duties including stock takes of equipment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Manual handling training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to work as part of a team
- Able to work with other drivers on heavy and awkward loads
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with the public
- Experience of working in a stores environment with NHS & Social Services equipment or equivalent
- Experience of fitting and assembling equipment
- Experience of cleaning equipment
- Good motivation and ability to be flexible and creative
Values
Desirable criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Jensen
- Job title
- Logistics Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 298 9805
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