Car Park Attendant

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester is seeking a Car Park Attendant to facilitate patient and visitor parking. Responsibilities include maintaining park cleanliness, assisting patients with mobility needs, and ensuring car park regulations are adhered to. The ideal candidate will have strong customer service skills and the ability to work outdoors in varying weather conditions. This position offers a full-time, permanent contract with annual leave benefits.

Benefits

Annual Leave - 27 days plus 8 Bank holidays

Opportunity to work in a well-led team

Full-time employment with stability

Qualifications

• Experience in customer service roles.
• Previous car park attendant experience preferred.
• Willingness to learn to operate car park equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide courteous service to patients and visitors.
• Maintain cleanliness and safety in the car parks.
• Assist with wheelchair provision at entrances.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Good oral communication skills

Customer service skills

Education

Good literacy skills

Job description

Overview

Are you interested in joining our car park team, do you want to make a difference?

Then working at The Christie main site where you will be required to work outdoors assisting patients, staff, visitors, and contractors to park will make that difference

Applicants should be Smart, Flexible, Reliable, show initiative in all situations and have excellent Customer Service skills

Do you want to make a difference? Are you Smart, Flexible, Reliable, decisive, show initiative in all situations and have excellent Customer Service skills able to respond to changing situations? Do you want to be part of a well led, well established team in its continued development?

Mon - Sat

Shift patterns 0600-1400, 0800-1600, 1000-1800

Annual Leave - 27 days leave plus 8 Bank holidays

Main duties

• Provide a professional, courteous, efficient, and polite service to patients, visitors, staff, and contractors.
• Provide patients and patient visitors with any assistance where necessary as the first point of contact including providing directions and taking patients to departments wards as required.
• Assist patients with use of wheelchairs where necessary, taking patients to main site if required.
• Maintain the car parks in a clean, safe, and tidy state, clearing leaves, gritting in adverse weather, and emptying bins as required.
• Ensure that all the patient, patient visitor entrances to the hospital are clean and tidy.

About us

The Christie is one of Europe\'s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Details

Date posted: 18 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 2

Salary: £24,465 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 413-99014-EF-AK

Job locations: Car Park Team - E00238, Manchester, M20 4BX

Job responsibilities

• To ensure that there are adequate numbers of wheelchairs available at the three main trust patient entrances (Oak Rd, Palatine Rd and OPD receptions)
• To ensure that all external use wheelchairs are cleaned daily.
• Monitor car park usage and escalate car park issues as required.
• To ensure that staff do not park on patient / visitor car parks.
• To ensure that patients / visitors do not park on the staff car park.
• To report any faults or problems with the car park or the car park equipment following first line maintenance fault finding.
• To carry out basic first line maintenance on all car parking equipment, including replenishment of car park ticket machines.
• To reserve parking spaces when required.
• To ensure that contractors do not park on site.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Good literacy skills

EXPERIENCE

• Working as a part of a team or as an individual
• Previous car park attendant experience
• Customer service skills

Desirable

• Working with the public
• Previous NHS experience

SKILLS

• Good interpersonal skills
• Good oral communication skills
• Moving and handling training

Desirable

• Security Training

KNOWLEDGE

• Must be willing to learn how to operate the equipment i.e. Walkie-talkies, car park management equipment (barriers / ticket machines), wheelchairs

Desirable

• To already know something about the hospital or working within the NHS or the car parking industry

VALUES

• Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours

OTHER

• Be prepared to work outdoors in all weather conditions

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.

Employer details

The Christie NHS FT

Car Park Team - E00238

Manchester

M20 4BX

The Christie NHS FT

Car Park Team - E00238

Manchester

M20 4BX