Decontamination & Recycling Team Leader

Decontamination & Recycling Team Leader
York
Hours: 9am - 5pm
Salary: £24,389 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 Decontamination & Recycling 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.

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 Decontamination & Recycling Team Leader for Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd you will supervise and control the provision of community equipment services to the agreed specification and to the agreed performance, qualitative and financial targets and ensure that the cleaning operation is run in a clean efficient manner that complies with the company’s health & safety policy

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

• Work with the purchasing team to maintain levels of stock to the agreed establishment targets.
• To follow the company goods receiving procedure and utilise the stores effectively – by ensuring appropriate areas are used to separate clean from soiled equipment and cleaned stock is returned to stores daily.
• Have full knowledge of all areas (products) which are to be cleaned in the course of duty. Highlight gaps in knowledge and train when required.
• Ensure all areas (products) are cleaned efficiently and in a timely manner to the required standards.
• Oversee the timely flow of returned stock items through pre-cleaning, cleaning, and workshop processes in line with Medequip protocols and procedures.
• Liaise with the Contract Manager and Operations Manager to ensure all
• Medequip1 Branch Statistics targets are adhered to. These shall include (but not be limited to), Items in cleaning, Items in workshop.
• To participate in monthly stocktakes, perpetual inventory stocktakes, and full quarterly stock takes.
• Have full working knowledge of all cleaning equipment, materials and agents and use cleaning equipment as directed by your line manager.
• Ensure that all paperwork, storage, and stock counting are completed in line with the company and contract specification.
• Follow the company’s guidelines for dealing with scrap equipment disposal and to carefully follow the health and safety guidelines regarding the control of hazardous substances.
• Ensure a high standard of personal hygiene and appearance and general cleanliness to comply with statutory and Company regulations, wearing company uniform as specified. Maintains standards of conduct and dress to sustain the confidence of prescribers, clients & carers.
• To occasionally support visits to clients’ homes and assist installation,delivery/collection of equipment in a friendly, efficient, and courteous mannerwith due respect to the client, their carer and their property.
• The ability to prioritise and manage own workload with minimum supervision.
• Flexibility to work as part of a team and use own initiative.

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.

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.