Specialist Equipment Apprentice

Specials Equipment Apprentice
Birmingham

Hours: 30 hours per week 
Salary: £12,480 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 Specials Equipment Apprentice 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

We have an exciting opportunity for a Specials Coordinator Apprentice to join our Warehouse team. This role is ideal for someone who is organised, hands-on, and interested in learning how specialist community equipment is managed, recycled and delivered to support people in their homes.

As a Specials Coordinator Apprentice, you will help manage non-standard equipment (“specials”), ensuring items are checked, catalogued, stored correctly and ready for reuse. You will work closely with warehouse teams, suppliers, prescribers and occupational therapists to coordinate equipment orders, repairs and deliveries.

What you’ll learn and support with:

• Coordinating new and recycled specialist equipment
• Checking equipment quality and ensuring items are complete
• Photographing and cataloguing equipment for the online system
• Liaising with suppliers, prescribers and internal teams
• Supporting equipment repairs and warranty checks
• Helping ensure stock is stored safely and correctly
• Occasionally assisting with equipment deliveries or collections

What we’re looking for:

• GCSEs (or equivalent) including Maths and English
• Good communication and organisation skills
• Basic IT skills and confidence using systems/devices
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn
• Ability to work as part of a team in a warehouse environment

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.