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February 26, 2025

Basingstoke: Hampshire County Council Vacancies Hampshire Equipment Services




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.

Defence launches the Families Hub – an information portal to help navigate Service family life


The Families Hub – which signposts to information, support and organisations to help navigate all stages of Service family life – has launched.

For the first time, Armed Forces families will be able to access a “one stop shop” digital platform – which signposts to a wealth of information, support and organisations – to help you navigate Service family life.

The Families Hub is for all Armed Forces (Regular and Reserve) families and personnel – from the moment of entering the Forces, through to leaving.

Visit the Families Hub today and explore a range of topics, including partner support, housing, health and wellbeing, childcare and finance.

Bovington: Pilates classes


Information provided by Bovington HIVE
 

Fylde: AFC Armed Forces Community Foundation Veterans Programme


Information provided by Preston & Weeton HIVE

Medway: Lego Clubs at Medway Libraries

 



If you like building brick creations, no matter how old you are, come along to our free weekly drop-in sessions with the world’s favourite blocks - build, play and have fun!

Suitable for children aged 4 and over (under 8s must be accompanied by an adult).

Check days and times of  Lego Clubs HERE

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub 



Weeton: Every Monday - Coffee Morning in the Community Centre

Information provided by Preston & Weeton HIVE

February 25, 2025

Staffordshire: St George's Day Celebrations Tamworth - 19 April


 

Tamworth’s popular St George’s Day celebrations are back for 2025 with an exciting line-up of entertainment set to take over the Castle Grounds, with medieval-themed fun for the whole family on Easter Saturday 19 April, from 10.30am – 5pm.

The FREE annual festival is one of the highlights of Tamworth Borough Council’s impressive calendar of outdoor events, drawing thousands of visitors from across the country. This year, the event falls on Easter weekend making it an even bigger ‘eggtravaganza!’

Full details: HERE

Information: Central HIVE Hub

Headspace App – Five FREE family & friends subscriptions available for Army Personnel and Army Civil Servants

 
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Army personnel and Army civil servants are eligible to sign up to Headspace for free, and also to extend this free subscription offer to five friends and family.

To sign up, please go to https://work.headspace.com/britisharmy/member-enroll

Please use your @mod.gov.uk, @armymail.gov.uk or @csmail.mod.uk email address to verify your account when prompted.

Headspace says, “We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mindfulness tools for everyday life, including meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with a human-centered model of care, with coaching, therapy, psychiatry and EAP services under one roof. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians, to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive.”

Lichfield: Month of the Military Child - DMS Whittington events


 

DMS(W) and DMA are actively supporting Armed Forces Families within the MOD and relevant charities with this year’s MotC, April 2025. ‘Purple up! Day’ a chance for everyone to dress in something purple to show their support on 25th April 2025.

WOSM will be holding an event please wait out for further events.


Information from: Central HIVE Hub

Medway: Find a Scout group in the area



Would you like to join scouts but don't know which group is near you? Please contact the groups listed below for information on when and what time they meet.

Click HERE for more information.

Information provided by South East HIVE Hub