Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC620141
Salary Range: £26,918 - £29,616 per annum
Work Location: Hampshire Equipment Services, Basingstoke with travel across Hampshire using a council vehicle
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 5 March 2025
Interview Date: w/c 10 March 2025
The Role:
Join Hampshire Equipment Services (HES) as an Equipment Technician, ensuring the safety of medical and mobility equipment. You’ll use a Council vehicle to deliver, collect, install, repair and service this equipment. Full training will be provided to ensure compliance with LOLER and PUWER safety standards.
What you’ll do:
- Perform inspections, tests, installations, maintenance and repairs in service users’ homes, schools, residential, and nursing homes across Hampshire.
- Ensure all equipment meets LOLER and PUWER safety standards.
- Conduct Portable Appliance Testing (PAT).
- Manage and schedule your own workload efficiently.
- Attend monthly team meetings at the Hampshire Equipment Service office in Basingstoke.
- Handle heavy objects such as bed parts, pressure-relief equipment, hoists, chairs and bath lifts.
What we’re looking for:
- A current, full UK driving licence.
- General knowledge of engineering, electrical circuits, fixing methods and fault-finding techniques.
- Values patience, compassion, empathy and excellence in all interactions. You’ll treat all service users with dignity and respect.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
- Physically able to undertake the moving and handling of equipment up to 20KG.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Equipment Technician role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.
Why join us?
Make a Difference: Work in collaboration with organisations across Health and Social care to maximise independence, prevent hospital admissions, and facilitate rapid discharge from hospital to improve outcomes for the people of Hampshire. For further information please visit our Reablement website.
Professional Development: Supportive supervision and continuous learning opportunities, including specialist manufacturer training and formal qualification routes. All team members obtain a Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) qualification once in post, fully funded by the council.
Employee Support: Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
Competitive Benefits Package: Including generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information here.
Working Patterns :
The working hours for this position follow a current pattern of Monday – Friday, 8.30am – 4.30pm, with a 4pm Friday finish.
Our Service runs 7 days a week, 365 days of the year. Following approximately 12 months in the role, you’ll be required to participate in the on-call out of hours, weekend and bank holiday rota, working a rotational 1:12 basis, for which enhancements are paid.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.
Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.
Other roles you may have experience in may include: Engineer, Engineering Assessor, Site Services Manager, Machinery Surveyor, Inspection and Testing Administrator, Operations Manager, Equipment Maintenance Technician, HSE Lifting Specialist, QHSE Manager.
Travel Requirements:
You will be required to drive a Council vehicle and must hold a current full drivers’ licence.
Values Based Recruitment:
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Additional Information:
Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process.
Vetting Requirements:
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Chris Bonard, Senior LOLER and PUWER Technician, on Chris.Bonard@hants.gov.uk or Dave Wood, Operational Manager, on Dave.Wood@hants.gov.uk.
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
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