Job summary
Hampshire Equipment Service (HES) are looking for a conscientious driver that can help change people’s lives by delivering, installing and collecting equipment to residences across various locations within Hampshire.
Hampshire Equipment Services provide equipment to assist people with disabilities and enable discharge from hospitals throughout Hampshire.
Our main office is based on Lister Road Industrial Estate, Basingstoke but this role covers the delivery and installation of equipment in the New Forest only. You will need to report to our main office on a daily basis to collect/ return equipment.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to drive a Council vehicle and must hold a current full drivers’ licence. A vehicle is provided; therefore, you must have parking facilities at home for a large van.
You’ll need to be highly organised, with good communication skills and confident prioritising a busy workload.
To ensure that medical loan equipment and aids for daily living are delivered /installed as quickly as possible. We help people to remain independent within their own homes, reducing care packages, preventing hospital admission and enabling rapid discharge. Drivers will demonstrate to service users, and their carer’s, the operation of specific items of equipment e.g.; fully profiling hi-lo beds, pressure relief products.
About us
Hampshire County Council recognises the outstanding contribution our staff make and offer a generous benefits package.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. The 4 core values are:
- Person Centred -Has a person centred and strengths based approach that empowers service users and carers to live independent lives.
- Resilience -Successfully manages change and develops and maintains their wellbeing and resilience.
- Accountable -Takes responsibility for work, actions and development; and acknowledges individual and shared accountability.
- Works Together -Builds supportive internal and external working relationships through positive communication and constructive feedback
- Schedule daily workload by contacting service users, service user representatives, carers or professionals, ensuring that the deliveries/installations minimise disruption to the service and its recipients, whilst ensuring that infection control procedures area adhered to.
- Working with colleagues to schedule joint visits to deliver heavy or awkward items.
- Loading and organising your vehicle to ensure that all equipment is safe, secure and does not exceed the vehicle capacity.
- Change schedule to accommodate urgent discharges - contacting the recipients of pre-arranged deliveries to advise of change.
- Deliver and install equipment in service users’ homes.
- Deliver and Install pressure relieving mattresses.
- Demonstrate to service user and carers the correct operation of equipment.
- Collection of equipment ensuring that all collected equipment is bagged, stored and handled according to the equipment service infection control procedures.
- Ensure that all equipment issued is fit for purpose and any equipment that is defective is repaired or disposed of in accordance with the equipment service guidelines.
- Ensure all equipment held in stores and vehicles is accounted for and secure at all times.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. The 4 core values are:
- Person Centred -Has a person centred and strengths based approach that empowers service users and carers to live independent lives.
- Resilience -Successfully manages change and develops and maintains their wellbeing and resilience.
- Accountable -Takes responsibility for work, actions and development; and acknowledges individual and shared accountability.
- Works Together -Builds supportive internal and external working relationships through positive communication and constructive feedback
- Schedule daily workload by contacting service users, service user representatives, carers or professionals, ensuring that the deliveries/installations minimise disruption to the service and its recipients, whilst ensuring that infection control procedures area adhered to.
- Working with colleagues to schedule joint visits to deliver heavy or awkward items.
- Loading and organising your vehicle to ensure that all equipment is safe, secure and does not exceed the vehicle capacity.
- Change schedule to accommodate urgent discharges - contacting the recipients of pre-arranged deliveries to advise of change.
- Deliver and install equipment in service users’ homes.
- Deliver and Install pressure relieving mattresses.
- Demonstrate to service user and carers the correct operation of equipment.
- Collection of equipment ensuring that all collected equipment is bagged, stored and handled according to the equipment service infection control procedures.
- Ensure that all equipment issued is fit for purpose and any equipment that is defective is repaired or disposed of in accordance with the equipment service guidelines.
- Ensure all equipment held in stores and vehicles is accounted for and secure at all times.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Full driving licence.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to prioritise / schedule own workload.
- Able to demonstrate a flexible attitude to the work environment.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively within a team.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of Health & Safety at work.
- Ability to apply common sense to day to day problem solving.
- Commitment to attend staff training and participate in own development through supervision and performance development.
- Responsible for regular maintenance, cleaning and day to day security of the vehicle issued.
- This post includes participation in the on-call weekend and bank holiday rota during office hours- standby payment and overtime applicable. Frequency is approx. 6times per yea
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Full driving licence.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to prioritise / schedule own workload.
- Able to demonstrate a flexible attitude to the work environment.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively within a team.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of Health & Safety at work.
- Ability to apply common sense to day to day problem solving.
- Commitment to attend staff training and participate in own development through supervision and performance development.
- Responsible for regular maintenance, cleaning and day to day security of the vehicle issued.
- This post includes participation in the on-call weekend and bank holiday rota during office hours- standby payment and overtime applicable. Frequency is approx. 6times per yea
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
