Bank Environmental Services Porter | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in Cambridge is seeking an Environmental Services Porter to assist with waste collection and management throughout the hospital. This role involves working on a flexible schedule, including shifts during the day and night. Responsibilities include supporting the Team Leader in delivering collection schedules and ensuring the efficient handling of various waste types. The position offers development opportunities, benefits such as on-site leisure facilities, and support for achieving a good work-life balance.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Reduced-cost bus travel

Subsidised parking

Qualifications

• Reliable and hardworking individual.
• Ability to work up to 12-hour shifts including days and nights.
• Experience in environmental services or waste management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Team Leader to deliver the Collection Schedules.
• Collect cardboard/sharps.
• Handle biohazard/hazardous clinical wastes.
• Ensure recyclables are collected.

Job description

Are you looking for a new opportunity? Are you a reliable, hardworking individual who thrives in a busy environment?

Staff Bank Services successfully provides temporary staffing throughout Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust via a variety of different assignments.

We are looking to register reliable, hardworking individuals who would thrive in a busy environment and are available to work up to 12‑hour shifts, as and when required, including days and nights. You will be working within the Environmental Services team, ensuring waste is collected in a timely and efficient manner from all areas of the hospital.

Environmental Services Porter

Porter will assist the Team Leader for the Process and Resource Manager and their staff in providing an efficient waste collection service for all wastes generated from the Trust.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Assist the Team Leader to deliver the Collection Schedules, including dirty and infected laundry.
• Collect cardboard/sharps.
• Handle biohazard / hazardous clinical wastes.
• Recyclables.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13 000 staff and over 1 100 beds, the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, CUH’s values – Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We welcome applications for all positions irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status or socio‑economic background.

Unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, a shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good‑work programme currently includes reduced‑cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from the Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. Parking on site is subsidised for eligible staff.

On the CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. We have recently launched the first staff pod break spaces in the Deakin Centre, featuring a colleague‑only café with free tea and coffee, a break space and a private outside area for rest and recharge.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Interviews will be held on 6 January 2026. The advert will close at midnight on 21 December 2025.