Bank - Environmental Waste Operative / Driver – Band 2

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a Bank Environmental Waste Operative at an integrated care system in Liverpool. The role involves ensuring efficient waste collection, segregation, and disposal within the hospital environment while adhering to compliance standards. Candidates must possess relevant qualifications and demonstrate commitment and teamwork in delivering essential environmental services.

Qualifications

• Must have GCSE or equivalent qualifications.
• Valid Full Driving License required.
• Willingness to learn is essential.

Responsibilities

• Collect and transport all hospital waste and laundry according to schedules.
• Segregate and process specific waste categories as per Trust policies.
• Operate electric vehicles and adhere to Waste License Conditions.

Skills

Verbal communication

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Electric Vehicle Driver License

Full Driving License

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bank - Environmental Waste Operative / Driver – Band 2

The closing date is 30 July 2025

The designation of Environmental Services Officer applies to a self-motivatedmember of the workforce. Their duties are to ensure that day-to-day handlingand disposal of waste is in accordance with approved practices. TheEnvironmental Services Officer will be employed to cover any post on anyshift in the team. Collecting waste and or laundry from areas around thehospital and transport it to the Trust's Waste Transfer Stations or wastestorage points. They will join an integrated team responsible for all waste and laundry collection/storage and external litter collection together with any other environmental service as determined by the Environmental ServicesManager.

Main duties of the job

All Environmental Services Officers in the Capital Planning and EstatesManagement Department will form part of an integrated team whose role is to provide the best possible service to the Trust. Environmental Services Officers will have both group and individual responsibilities for defined aspects of the service but each will ensure their contribution is beneficial to other departments within the Trust, as well as the Capital Planning and Estates Management Department, so as to fulfil the Trust's overall objectives.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

Based on the above job definition a member of Environmental Services must have the ability to use initiative and fulfil with total commitment, versatility and flexibility, a requirement to: -

1. Collect all hospital waste and laundry in accordance with the schedulesset by the Environmental Services Manager.2. Segregate, transport and process specific categories of waste asdictated by the Trusts Policy for the Management of Waste.3. To operate the Trusts electric vehicles, bulk waste compactionmachines and road sweeper.4. To ensure that all aspects of the Waste Licence Conditions areadhered to.5. Place specific categories of waste in the appropriate skip for off sitedisposal or recycling, as indicated by the Environmental ServicesManager.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSE or other qualifications/equivalent
• Electric Vehicle Driver License or pass an electric vehicle course.
• Full Driving License

Experience

• Working as part of a team
• Working with the public
• Experience of waste management / handling activities
• Experience of operating electric vehicles or other plant.

Other

• Willingness to learn.

Skills

• Have good verbal communication skills.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust