Driver Technician

Position:Driver Technician
Department: Medequip Assistive Technologies
Location: Unit 7, Weston Industrial Estate, Lynx Crescent, Weston-Super-Mare BS24 9DJ
Hours:Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday 9-5pm, 45 minute lunch + oncall
Salary:£23,920 - £30,000 per annum

This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward-thinking care provider, who’ll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field!

Join us as our new Driver Technician at Medequip Assistive Technologies and let us empower you to truly make a difference.

Our continued employee development programmes, internal training and exceptional leadership will give you the ability to continuously develop yourself professionally whilst providing person-centred care.

You’ll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip’s values and ways.

Who are Medequip?

Medequip is the leading provider of community equipment services to local authorities and the NHS across the UK, delivering a wide range of equipment and support to people in their own homes, keeping people independent for longer.

Our mission is to help people stay independent for longer, with their families, in their own homes.

About the role

As the Driver Technician for Medequip Assistive Technologies you will be delivering and installing health related products that help our customers remain independent in their own homes for longer. This is not just a delivery and installation role, you will be pivotal in providing life enhancing equipment, a second to none customer service experience and assurance that Medequip are a trusted and reliable organisation.

This role will require you to work to suit the needs of the business and we as being able to Participate in an emergency on-call rota.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Driving to customer’s homes and services, acting in a respectful, polite and approachable manor
• Delivering, collecting, and installing healthcare equipment in our customers’ homes
• Demonstrating the use and functionality of the equipment to our customers
• Delivering exception customer facing service with care, empathy, integrity and kindness
• Loading equipment onto and off the van, carrying in to and out of customer’s homes
• Basic DIY tasks
• You will be on the road in the local area in a Medequip branded van, representing the company at all times in a professional manor.
• Be flexible with working days/hours to suit the needs of the business.
• Participate in an emergency on-call rota.
• Enhancing the lives of our customers by providing medical and care equipment and a first-class service with every home visit.

About you

Above all, you will identify and align with our company values:

• We keep our promises.
• We empower people to be accountable for their actions and performance.
• We help people with empathy, courtesy, dignity, and kindness.
• We show respect and are trusted by our colleagues, suppliers, and customers.
• We believe in teamwork and are passionate about our work.
• We encourage innovation and the development of technology.
• We embrace change and seek to achieve excellence.
• We deliver cost effective, efficient, and safe healthcare solutions.

Qualifications and experience required.

• You must Have a full UK driving licence (minimum of 3 years)
• Work well independently and as part of a team.
• Must have good communication skills.
• Be flexible with working days/hours to suit the needs of the business and participate in an emergency on-call rota.

What we offer

• 29 days holiday moving to a max of 33 days (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Continued professional development, training and learning support
• Pension scheme
• Van provided for travel to and from work.
• Healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Care First employee assistance program including free counselling.
• Access to Perkbox discount platform
• Free uniform
• Free DBS check

To discuss the above in more detail, or other opportunities within Medequip, you can email ellice.orr@medequip-uk.com.

We welcome applications from all sections of the Community as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are also happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it, please let us know.

We take our data privacy seriously and commit to processing your data in line with GDPR guidelines. Medequip’s Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with our recruitment processes.

This role may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without satisfactory right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From £23,920.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company car
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free flu jabs
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Experience:

• Driving: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: On the road