Driver Technician (Two Person Team)

Driver Technician
Norfolk

Hours: 42.5 hours per week 
Salary: £27,117 per annum (plus on call allowance)

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 Driver Technician, two person team, 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 Driver Technician, two person team, for Medequip Assistive Technologies you will be responsible for the safe, efficient, and professional delivery, installation, and collection of community equipment to service users’ homes, residential care facilities, and hospitals. Working as part of a team, the technicians ensure that all equipment is delivered and installed correctly, with care, empathy, and respect for each service user’s individual needs.

This role will require you to work flexibly to suit the needs of the business as well as being able to participate in an emergency on-call rota.

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

• Deliver, install, and demonstrate a wide range of community equipment and adaptations in service users’ homes in accordance with prescriptions and company procedures.
• Conduct joint deliveries and installations requiring two-person handling to ensure safety and compliance with manual handling standards.
• Carry out collections of equipment from service users’ homes, ensuring correct decontamination and return to the depot.
• Complete dynamic risk assessments on-site to identify and mitigate any hazards before commencing work.
• Ensure all delivery and installation documentation is completed accurately using handheld devices or paperwork as required.
• Provide excellent customer service and communicate clearly and respectfully with service users, carers, and healthcare professionals.
• Report any incidents, damage, or faults immediately to the depot or line manager.
• Maintain company vehicles in a clean, roadworthy condition and carry out daily vehicle checks.
• Follow company health and safety policies, including safe manual handling, PPE use, and infection control procedures.
• Participate in out-of-hours (OOH) rota as required to support urgent deliveries and collections.

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
• 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 

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.