Car Park Attendant | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cancer care organization in Manchester seeks a dedicated individual for its car park team. This role involves assisting patients and visitors, maintaining the car park, and ensuring a positive experience for all. Flexibility, reliability, and excellent customer service skills are essential. Opportunities for annual leave and additional responsibilities are part of the role.

Benefits

Annual Leave - 27 days plus 8 Bank holidays

Qualifications

• Applicants should be Smart, Flexible, Reliable, and show initiative.
• Excellent Customer Service skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide a courteous and professional service to patients and visitors.
• Assist patients and visitors in finding their way around the hospital.
• Maintain cleanliness of the car parks.
• Ensure adequate numbers of wheelchairs are available.
• Monitor car park usage and report any issues.

Skills

Customer Service skills

Flexibility

Reliability

Smart appearance

Initiative

Job description

Overview

Are you interested in joining our car park team? If you want to make a difference, work at The Christie main site where you will be required to work outdoors assisting patients, staff, visitors, and contractors with parking.

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

Do you want to be part of a well led, well established team in its continued development?

Shift patterns

Mon – Sat
Shift patterns 0600-1400, 0800-1600, 1000-1800

Benefits

Annual Leave - 27 days leave plus 8 Bank holidays

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide a professional, courteous, efficient, and polite service to patients, visitors, staff, and contractors.
2. To 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.
3. To assist patients with use of wheelchairs where necessary, taking patients to main site if required.
4. Maintain the car parks in a clean, safe, and tidy state, clearing leaves, gritting in adverse weather, and emptying bins as required.
5. To ensure that all patient, patient visitor entrances to the hospital are clean and tidy.

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% of 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.

Additional 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.

This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025