Frontline Portering & Waste Logistics Specialist

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Portering Services operative to provide a flexible frontline support service for staff and patients. You will join a team delivering efficient portering, moving and handling, and support to other departments to ensure smooth clinical and non-clinical operations.

Responsibilities include teamwork in portering, delivering customer care, driving duties in a tail-lift vehicle, relocating equipment, collecting linen and waste across the Trust

Responsibilities

• The post holder will work as part of a team to provide an efficient Portering service to the Trust.
• To provide and to contribute to a first-class customer care service to all users of the Trust.
• To undertake driving duties in a Trust tail-lift vehicle, to enable the collection of various waste streams and dirty linen from areas of the Trust premises.
• To transfer furniture and assist in relocating equipment during office relocations and or new developments.
• To collect bagged/caged linen/laundry from designated locations as in agreed schedules. This includes soiled and infected linen.
• To undertake refuse collections of clinical, household, confidential and specialist waste.

Job description

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Portering Services operative to provide a flexible frontline support service for staff and patients. You will join a team delivering efficient portering, moving and handling, and support to other departments to ensure smooth clinical and non-clinical operations.

Responsibilities include teamwork in portering, delivering customer care, driving duties in a tail-lift vehicle, relocating equipment, collecting linen and waste across the Trust