PPM Technician

PPM Technician
Warwickshire

Hours: 40 hours per week (Mon to Fri  08.00 to 17.00) 
Salary: £24,647.80 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 PPM Technician 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.

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 medical 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 PPM Technician for Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd you will ensure all equipment is tested & repaired in line with Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) as well as other regulations

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

Servicing, maintaining, and repairing equipment in service users’ homes and in house.

• Driving a large van and completing fully all the mandatory vehicle checks
• At times, where necessary, delivering and collecting disability equipment to service users’ homes, hospitals, and health centres.
• Identifying the stock to be on the van and loading equipment in the van
• Multiple service jobs daily, some of which can include heavy lifting 
• Providing polite, empathetic and client focused service
• Undertake risk assessments on all required activities 
• Using a weight rig to service and maintain hoists
• Understanding and demonstrating the correct functionality and safe installation of items, identifying repair and replace and damaged or faulty stock.
• Being able to identify and report immediately any perceived safeguarding issues to your line manager.
• Use of a scanner to complete jobs, competent in adding notes/comments 
• Adhering to timeslots and liaising with service users if this is not possible.
• Being on call on a rotational basis receiving enhanced allowance during this period.
• PAT testing responsibilities

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 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.