Gloucestershire County Council
Refurbishment and Distribution Operative
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Job Title: Refurbishment and Distribution Operative
Job Location: Hempsted, Gloucester
Salary: £25,583 - £27,694 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 21/07/2026
Job Requisition Number: 13994
We are looking for a Refurbishment and Distribution Operative to join our growing equipment refurbishment team!
Gloucestershire Equipment Loan Service (GELS) has a new vacancy for a full-time Refurbishment and Distribution Operative to join our team in Hempsted, Gloucester. This is a great opportunity to join an established and supportive team, making a difference to people in Gloucestershire.
About the Role:
GELS plays an important role in supporting the care sector in Gloucestershire. We are responsible for the refurbishment, distribution, delivery, collection, and maintenance of equipment to support people being discharged from hospital and to help people to remain independent in their own home. The service is delivered on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council and One Gloucestershire.
Responsibilities include:
- Supporting the Warehouse team to deliver an efficient and effective service
- Moving equipment through the warehouse process
- Allocating workflow and producing workflow documents
- Undertaking stock takes
- Operating machinery such as wash plant, steam cleaner, and power tools
- Inputting data to IT systems and manual records
To find out more about the GELS team, visit our webpage What does Gloucestershire Equipment Loan Service do? - Gloucestershire County Council.
About You:
The ideal candidate will have worked in a production or warehouse environment and have experience of these processes and procedures. You will have experience working in a team and be happy working independently. You will have a focus on quality and a positive, can-do attitude. You will have basic IT skills and a willingness to undertake training and personal development. If you are friendly and outgoing with good communication skills, this could be the ideal role for you!
Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about.
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We Offer:
Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that’s exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
- Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Agile working with a mix of office and home working
- Regular formal and informal support
- Safe, supportive, and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Access to training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills and progress your career
- Discounts at a number of major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)
- GCC’s Cycle to Work Salary
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- Strong emphasis on a supportive working environment and developing our employees with 94% having participated in their annual appraisal and regular health and wellbeing events.
Applying:
Please write your application with consideration for the criteria in the Job Profile (see link below).
Your application should include examples of why you should be considered and cover the experience, skills, and knowledge that you would bring to the post. Please also include details of your English and Maths GCSE qualifications (or equivalent) in the application form.
To arrange an informal discussion with the Team Manager, please email ASCrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk or click 'Apply'
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:
Job Profile - Refurbishment and Distribution Operative
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have the right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
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Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.
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