Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Driver / Fitter / Warehouse Operative

The closing date is 26 February 2026

Job summary

The Warehouse Driver/Fitter Technician provides a delivery, collection, installation, and exchange service for community equipment across the Trusts area. The role involves driving Trust vehicles safely, planning routes, and working either independently or as part of a twoperson team to handle, fit, adjust, or dismantle equipmentoften heavy or awkwardwithin service users homes.

This is an exciting opportunity for the postholder to join an existing team. The postholder will get the opportunity to participate and undertake visual risk assessments, ensure safe use of equipment, follows manufacturers instructions, and gives clear guidance to clients and carers.

The role includes maintaining vehicle cleanliness and safety checks, liaising with clients, carers, and equipment stores, and reporting issues or safeguarding concerns. When required, the technician supports warehouse tasks such as stock control, decontamination, maintenance checks, and frontdesk duties. Adherence to Health & Safety, infection control, information governance, and Trust policies is essential.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will be to:

Deliver, collect, assemble and remove community equipment in service users homes.
Drive Trust vehicles safely, plan routes efficiently and maintain vehicle cleanliness and basic checks.
Work independently or as part of a twoperson team depending on the size and complexity of equipment.
Carry out basic risk assessments in the home to ensure equipment is suitable and safe.
Install and adjust equipment correctly and explain its use clearly to clients and carers.
Use handheld devices to record deliveries, collections, signatures and equipment details accurately.
Communicate politely and sensitively with clients, carers and colleagues throughout the day.
Report any concerns, issues, incidents or safeguarding matters promptly to the line manager.
Keep equipment secure, ensure vehicle contents are protected, and follow loneworking procedures.
Support warehouse operations when required, including stock handling, acceptance testing, equipment cleaning, and frontdesk tasks.
Follow Standard Operating Procedures and adhere to Trust policies on safety, infection control, confidentiality and data quality.

About us

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.

Date posted

12 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9835-WA25-170

Job locations

Europa Point

Europa Boulevard

Warrington

Cheshire

WA5 7TY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plan to integrate and form a new organisation on the 1st April 2026. As such, if your start date is on or after 1st April 2026, you will be employed by the newly formed organisation. Should you join Bridgewater prior to this date, your employment will automatically transfer into the new organisation. We are confident that this transition will provide new opportunities and a continued commitment to excellence in patient care.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To agree priorities for own work area with your Line Manager.

To drive Trust vehicles

To work as a two-person team in relation to the delivery, installation, fitting, or dismantling and collection of often heavy/awkward equipment

To work as a single person in the delivery and/or collection of equipment appropriate for one person to safely manage independently and provide installation/assembly as is required.

To undertake a visual risk assessment in the clients home to ensure safe lifting, fitting and on-going use of the equipment.

To undertake strict equipment handover procedures with clients/carers, including the adjustment and/or installation of items, in accordance with the manufacturers instructions. Give clear instruction in the use of the equipment.

To deliver/collect equipment with consideration of client/carers needs providing a timed/scheduled visit when necessary to co-ordinate with others.

To use the route planning facility for the delivery/collection of equipment, taking into consideration delivery instructions. Taking into consideration delivery instructions to ensure optimum use of allotted time and route.

To drive Trust vehicles in a safe and careful manner, to be able to navigate across the Trusts geographical footprint, using satnav or own knowledge of the designated borough.

To be responsible for the care of the vehicles including cleaning, completing safety checks/maintenance (oil, water, tyre checks) on hand held devices and reporting faults to line manager.

To be responsible for the security of the vehicle and its contents by ensuring the vehicle remains locked when the post holder leaves the vehicle for any reason, eg collecting /delivering of equipment at clients home.

To be in contact with the equipment stores by mobile phone during the day as required and in accordance with lone working policy.

To communicate with clients and carers in a sensitive and courteous manner both face to face and on the phone.

Ensure clients and carers are provided with manufacturers instructions for use, and information in regard to the Community Equipment Stores, and an emergency contact number in case of an equipment failure outside normal working hours.

Ensue a signature and date either by the client or carer is collected on the hand held device to keep the Stores IT system up to date.

To maintain records, both manual and computerised to Trust standards, verifying the accuracy of equipment codes and delivery areas, respond to information logged on handheld devices.

To treat and store confidential information in line with information governance policy.

To be conversant with the services computer system and to demonstrate competence in the use of handheld devices.

To be responsible for the correct completion and data input on the handheld devices.

To be responsible for own workload that is issued each day, to support providing a quality service to users.

Responsible for ensuring your own work is carried out in a timely manner

To feed back any issues, queries to the Line manager on returning to the Community Equipment Stores.

To advise the Line Manager of any circumstances which give cause for concern in relation to client care or health and safety/ safeguarding. Prompt reporting and recording of incidents, accidents and near misses

To ensure all equipment functions and is safe to use by the user/carer etc.

To be fully conversant with the Community Equipment Services Standard Operating Procedures and adhere to processes and procedures.

To be aware of the statutory regulations which applies to equipment safety inspections. (LOLER, COSHH, SSOW)

To support warehouse duties when needed, such as manning the front desk, acceptance testing, stock control, working in the decontamination area, maintenance checks, completing the pick etc

To liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders and the general public.

To always maintain composure and professionalism

Please see full job description attached.