The Equipment Technician will work within the Knowsley wheelchair service. The service aims to provide an effective and efficient service to the area, supporting people of all ages with wheelchair provisions. The service supports the assessment and delivery of wheelchairs to assist in safe discharges from hospital, pressure care needs, end of life care, moving and handling, and supporting independence. As part of the wheelchair service model, the service collects, decontaminates, refurbishes, services, and maintains wheelchairs.
1x 37.5 Hours Full Time Role Available
Previous applicants need not apply.
Principal Responsibilities:
1. Assist the Clinical Engineer Technician in delivering an excellent refurbishing service ensuring all equipment is categorised, refurbished, repaired, and serviced in stores prior to despatch into the community.
2. Repair wheelchair equipment on-site at base or in the community in service user residential environments.
3. Ensure the correct parts required are available for daily schedules.
4. Take instruction from Clinical Engineer Technician completing delegated workload.
5. Organise own workload to maximise efficiency.
6. Condemn equipment that is beyond economical repair following procedures and requesting sign off.
7. Maintain accurate stock control systems using a computerised system.
8. Update systems regarding items of equipment required for repair, service, and maintenance.
9. Assist in the completion of categorisation of manual wheelchairs to be repaired or refurbished in stores.
10. Salvage parts from equipment that have been quality inspected for reuse in line with the service sustainability aim.
11. Deliver and assist with the PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance) of manual wheelchairs/equipment.
12. Participate in self/staff development of training activities as required.
13. Carry out weekly/monthly stock checks of all spare parts required for PPM and participate in the annual stock take as required.
14. Receive all deliveries of spare parts equipment and ensure all equipment is processed onto the stock control system and located within the stores environment.
15. Identify and report all defective materials received into stores directly to line manager and organise remedial action as required.
16. In times of service BCP or staffing shortages, the post holder would be expected to cover roles within banding remit, which includes driving, delivering, and fitting of community equipment, collection, and decontamination of equipment.
About Mersey Care:
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. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including 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 costs as we do so.
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