Community Equipment Technician

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., Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Community Technician. The post holder will be responsible for the safe installation of healthcare equipment and be able to demonstrate an effective, efficient delivery, collection and equipment repair service for community equipment, for the residents of Knowsley. The post will also require service to provide both planned and emergency deliveries and collections of community equipment.To ensure all aspects of fleet vehicles are appropriately maintained, they will also be required to undertake key holder responsibilities and work as part of a 5 day shift over a 7 day rota system providing debriefs after completion of delivery/collection schedules.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.

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.