Warehouse Team Lead

Warehouse Team Leader
Rotherham

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Shifts to cover the 7 day service operational hours between 08:00 and 18:30, inclusive of weekends as required)
Salary: £22,925 per annum

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

Join us as our new Warehouse Team Leader at Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd 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 support to our clients.

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

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. 

About the role

As the Warehouse Team Leader for Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd you will be the lead of our team of Warehouse Operatives, ensuring colleagues operate in an efficient and safe manner whilst providing daily support and guidance to maximise output. 

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

• Provide strong leadership and guidance to our Warehouse Operatives
• Leading through demonstration, show and assist our Operatives how to effectively maintain the warehouse
• Scanning returned equipment into the correct area prior to cleaning.
• Ensuring all stock control processes are followed at all times and all items are in the correct location.
• Booking new stock in and barcoding appropriately
• Photographing non-stock equipment and competently adding them to the online catalogue with correct description
• Occasional visits to clients’ houses and assisting in delivery and collection of equipment, maintaining an empathetic and professional manor at all times 
• Unloading delivery vehicles in a safe and competent manner
• Use of a scanner to move stock and pick items of equipment for deliveries
• Maintain high standard of housekeeping in the Warehouse at all times, demonstrating this to the warehouse operatives in order to keep up company best practises 

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.

• Ideally some experience in a similar team leader level role
• The successful candidate must be competent and comfortable with extensive manual handling
• Be flexible with working days/hours to suit the needs of the business

What we offer

• 29 days holiday moving to a max of 33 days (inclusive of Bank Holidays) 
• Continued professional development, training and learning support and opportunities for career progression. 
• Pension scheme
• 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 

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.