Practical engineer to help those with a disability

Our volunteer engineers make aids for the disabled that are not available to buy. If a person with a disability, or their carer or medical practitioner, identifies a problem that can be resolved with a piece of equipment, but no one makes it, then Remap will. Our service is free to the user.

When a request for help is received by the Remap case officer, the job will be allocated to a volunteer engineer who will arrange to visit the client, with a medical professional if appropriate, to understand the problem.

The engineer will then return home and, after careful consideration of the issues, design and make the aid in their own workshop. After delivering the aid to the client and making any adjustments (it may take several attempts, like any prototype), the job is complete.

You will work from home and every effort will be made to give you jobs close by to minimise travel (although travel costs wil...