Community Equipment Technician

Job overview

The Equipment Technician will work within CEDAS (Community Equipment Disability Advisory Service) . The Community Equipment Service aim to provide an effective and efficient service to the Liverpool area, supporting people of all ages with the issue of equipment provisions. The service supports the delivery of equipment to assist in safe discharges from hospital, pressure care needs, end of life care, moving and handling and supporting independence. As part of the Community Equipment model the service collects, decontaminates, refurbishes, services and maintains equipment.

Main duties of the job

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an Equipment Technician. The post holder will be assist the Clinical Engineer Technician and the Equipment Advisory Service in delivery an excellent refurbishing service ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired and serviced in stores prior to dispatch into community.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Assist the Clinical Engineer Technician and the Equipment Advisory Service in delivering an excellent refurbishing service ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished repaired and serviced in  stores prior to despatch into community. 2. Repairs of CEDAS equipment on site at base or in the community in service user residential environments. 3. To ensure the correct parts required are available for daily schedules. 4. Ability to problem solve and pay attention to detail. 5. To take instruction from Clinical Engineer Technician by completing delegated workload. 6. Organise own workload to maximise efficiency. 7. Condemn equipment that is beyond economical repair following procedures and requesting sign off. 8. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes to provide effective stock management of equipment. 9. Maintain accurate stock control systems using computerised system where possible. 10. Update systems regard items of equipment required for repair, service and maintenance. 11. Assist in the completion of categorisation of manual wheelchairs to be repaired or refurbished in stores. 12. To salvage parts from equipment that have been quality inspected for reuse in line with the service sustainability aim. 13. Deliver and assist with the PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance) of manual wheelchairs/equipment. 14. Deliver, participate and support in self/staff development of training activities/programmes as required. 15. To carry out weekly/monthly stock checks of all spare parts required for PPM and maintaining specialist equipment and participate in the annual stock take as required. 16. To receive all deliveries of spare parts equipment and storage of the same as appropriate, ensure all equipment is processed onto the stock control system and located within the stores environment. 17. To identify and report all defective materials received into stores directly to line manager and organise remedial action as required. 18. In times of service BCP or staffing shortages the post holder would be expected to cover roles within banding remit, for this role that would include driving, delivering and fitting of community equipment, collection and decontamination of equipment.