Shared Services Partnership
Equipment Installation Technician
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Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC624525
Salary Range: £27,780 - £30,564 per annum
Work Location: Unit 26 Mitchell Close, Fareham
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 5 August 2026
The Role:
As an Equipment Installation Technician, you’ll follow the guidance of an Occupational Therapist or other health professional to install and construct standard and bespoke minor aids and adaptations to ensure vulnerable people in Hampshire can live independently.
You’ll receive full training and support to enhance your practical skills.
What you’ll do:
- Install, repair, and collect standard and bespoke equipment in service users’ homes across Hampshire.
- Demonstrate how to safely use, maintain, and clean equipment to service users, carers, and healthcare professionals.
- Efficiently manage and schedule your own workload.
- Lift and move equipment weighing up to 25KG.
What we’re looking for:
- A valid full driving licence that entitles you to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission.
- General knowledge of building skills, operating small workshop machinery and power tools, fixing methods, and fault-finding techniques.
- Commitment to demonstrating our values and behaviours, showing compassion, empathy, and respect.
- Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Physically able to undertake the moving and handling of equipment up to 25KG.
Working Patterns:
- Mon - Fri 8am - 4.30pm (including lunch break)
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Equipment Installation Technician role, team, and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills, and experience we want you to tell us about.
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Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values in your application.
Why join us?
- Make a Difference: Work in collaboration with organizations across Health and Social care to maximize independence, prevent hospital admissions, and facilitate rapid discharge from hospital to improve outcomes for the people of Hampshire. For further information, please visit our Reablement website.
- Professional Development: Supportive supervision and continuous learning opportunities. We want to help you strive to be the best you can be, and to enjoy serving Hampshire with purpose and pride.
- Employee Support: Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
- Competitive Benefits Package: Including generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information here.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.
Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.
Other roles you may have experience of may include: Handyman, Tradesperson, Equipment Installation Technician, Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Multi Skilled Engineer, Engineering Assessor, Machinery Surveyor, Inspection and Testing Administrator, Equipment Maintenance Technician, Field Service Technician.
Travel Requirements:
You will be required to drive a Council vehicle and must hold a current full driver’s licence.
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Values Based Recruitment:
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Additional Information:
Equipment Installation Technician Candidate Pack
Vetting Requirements:
This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Alex Marks, Operational Manager, on alex.marks@hants.gov.uk or 07718 146814 / 03707 798529.
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. We expect all employees, workers, and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
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