Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd
Employer Type: NHS
Site: Elland Loan Stores
Town: Elland
Salary: £25,990 per annum, pro rata
Salary Period: Yearly
Closing Date: 16/03/2025 23:59
CHS is able to offer a wide range of services. Our scale enables us to offer competitive rates and we have a long track record of providing high quality, customer-focused services.
We offer comprehensive estates, facilities management, medical engineering, catering solutions and procurement services supporting the provision of safe, effective healthcare to our communities. We are committed to delivering our Green Plan goals of reducing carbon emissions, air pollution, waste generation and improving recycling throughout delivery of our services. We also enable profit to go back into patient care.
CHS recognises that its staff are its greatest asset and that its business is its people. The company aims to create an environment and culture of openness, trust and honesty. We encourage and celebrate diversity because broader perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge will enrich and enhance the value we bring to each other, our clients, shareholders and other stakeholders.
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated, self-motivated person to join our team delivering and installing daily living aids and bed and mattress systems to service users in a range of settings.
The post holder should preferably have experience with medical devices, as well as with working independently within set processes and frameworks.
Main Duties of the Job
Working to agreed competencies, the post holder will contribute to providing a high quality service by ensuring that equipment issued to clients of the Integrated Community Equipment Service is supplied and commissioned effectively.
The post holder will undertake highly skilled support work with people who require installation/fitting of more complex equipment following hospital discharge or to prevent hospital admission. They shall have the ability to demonstrate the equipment and provide advice/guidance where necessary.
* Fit healthcare equipment, medical devices, assistive technology or products to meet individuals’ clinical needs (CHS223) – undertakes the fitting of basic equipment and educates carers and patients in its safe use.
* Repair medical devices, equipment and associated systems within healthcare (CHS208) – diagnose and repair faulty equipment both in the warehouse or in a community-based setting or to report such equipment to appropriate third party.
* Communicate with patients/carers where there may be a barrier to understanding.
Working for Our Organisation
At CHS, we understand the differences in delivering our services in complex environments and we have a flexible approach to meet the needs of our customers. Our Estates and Facilities management functions alongside our Medical Engineering, decontamination and procurement service, provides the following:
* Fully managed estate and building maintenance.
* Medical engineering/equipment maintenance/decontamination.
* Procurement advice, guidance and governance.
* Capital project management.
* Transport.
* Grounds maintenance.
* Catering.
* Cleaning (including robot and deep cleaning).
All provided to nationally recognised standards giving you assurance that your premises and equipment will be the best they can, and your customers will have confidence in you as a provider.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* Participate annually identifying, developing and agreeing your own development plan with your Line Manager using the CHS Appraisal.
* Comply with all Trust policies, procedures and protocols.
* Seek advice and support from Line Manager whenever necessary.
Maintain professional conduct including appearance at all times.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional knowledge and experience to NVQ 3 level equivalent.
Knowledge & Skills:
* Good working knowledge and understanding of the provision of Equipment services.
* Good organisational and managerial skills, ability to prioritise and organise own and departmental workloads.
* Ability to manage own time.
* Able to exercise independent judgment.
* Skilled at working with multi-disciplinary teams.
* Commitment to developing self and others.
* Ability to translate knowledge into practice.
* PAT testing.
Experience
* Able to demonstrate a depth of knowledge and learning from relevant and recent public health experience.
* Good interpersonal and relationship building skills along with a proven track record in delivering quality in service provision.
* Good working knowledge and understanding of the provision of Equipment services.
* Excellent ability to communicate effectively in writing and face-to-face.
* Ability to produce reports in relation to facilities services in the NHS environment.
* Experience in a relevant field such as Mechanics, joinery, Engineering.
Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions (CHS) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. CHS will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.
If applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred third-party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via NHS Jobs. If you have a query relating to your application, please contact the recruitment team on ask.recruitment@cht.nhs.uk.
If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current/most recent employer.
You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). For Enhanced and Standard DBS checks you will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.
CHS is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
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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.
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