Transport Manager

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Chorley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a Transport Manager to lead the One LSC transport function across Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. The role focuses on fleet governance, driver training, and strategic KPI oversight to support integrated health system collaboration.

You will drive cost controls, ensure compliance with DVSA and CPC guidelines, and work with Finance and Workforce to deliver service improvements while maintaining staff wellbeing and health and safety standards.

Qualifications

• ILM Level 5 management/leadership or equivalent experience in transport or logistics
• CPC in Road Haulage where relevant or related regulatory knowledge
• Experience with NHS procurement models and budget management

Responsibilities

• Oversee the One LSC transport service across Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, ensuring alignment with CPC guidance and DVSA requirements
• Manage fleet procurement, vehicle movement and running costs, including leased options
• Ensure Duty of Care for driver training and compliance
• Provide strategic oversight: KPI management, workforce engagement, cross-department collaboration, quality assurance, Health and Safety and staff wellbeing
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, Occupational Road Risk policies, COSHH, risk assessments and manual handling
• Identify and implement service improvements; work with Finance and Workforce to provide accurate activity/performance data
• Collaborate with partner Trusts to deliver integrated transport services and value for money

Skills

KPI management

Workforce engagement

Leadership

Health and Safety

Staff wellbeing

Budget management

Service improvement

Education

ILM Level 5 management/leadership or equivalent

CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

The Transport Manager will be responsible for the management of Transport service across Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. The post holder will develop and maintain effective partnerships across One LSC, providing leadership and influence to support integrated working, shared solutions, and the achievement of collective strategic priorities across the provider collaborative.

• The control of all One LSC vehicles within Lancashire Teaching Hospitals operating model working out of Chorley District Hospital. Full accountability to the Office of the Traffic Commissioner/Department of Vehicle Safety Agency (DVSA) and operate in line with CPC transport guidance.
• Stringent cost control with vehicle procurement, movement and fleet running costs inclusive of purchased fleet options and hire/leased vehicles.
• Accountability for the employer's Duty of Care for driver training and compliance.
• Strategic overview of Transport service with responsibility for:
  • KPI management
  • Workforce engagement
  • Customer and departmental collaborative working
  • Quality assurance
  • Health and Safety
  • Staff Wellbeing
• Review and ensure compliance with all mandatory regulations including Health & Safety, Occupational Road Risk Policy, COSHH, risk assessments and manual handling.
• Ensure departmental and logistics objectives are met in the most appropriate way, highlighting current deficiencies, and ensuring best practise and guidelines are adhered to.
• Proactively identifying and proposing service improvement opportunities
• To work closely with colleagues in Finance and Workforce to ensure that relevant and accurate information regarding service activity and performance is available.
• Working for our organisation We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path . You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

ILM Level 5 qualification in management or leadership, or equivalent experience or knowledge gained within Transport or Logistics environment

• Certificate of Professional Competence in Road Haulage. (CPC)

Desirable criteria

• Appropriate professional management qualification
• Essential IT skills (EITS) or equivalent, A working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, covering risk assessments and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
• Working knowledge to BSI/ISO regulation
• Demonstrate commitment to continued professional development (CPD)
• Minimum 3 years transport management and leadership experience
• Experience of Transportation, Logistics, Fleet and IT Planning and Management Systems
• Significant experience of budgetary management
• Experience of delivering service development and improvement.
• Experience of NHS procurement models aligned to waste recovery programmes.
• Knowledge of current Road Transport and Operators licensing legislation
• Fully understand the level and the standard of service required and ensure statutory and performance standards are maintained, monitored and regularly reviewed.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with Workforce and Trade Union organisations.
• Experience of using audit systems to improve performance
• Experience of working with IT using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience in a public service environment., Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective leadership and motivational skills to progress the team
• Motivate others, promoting a clear sense of purpose and a positive attitude to work with individuals and teams
• Ensure the transport service operates in line with legislation, standard processes and Health and Safety legislation.
• Efficient time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines
• Actively seek out cost savings and measures to provide an efficient service
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Ability to use initiative appropriately
• Ability to build effective relationships
• Ability to demonstrate diplomacy in dealing with all stakeholders
• Ability to develop and implement policies / protocols for own area.

Desirable criteria

• Good standard of written and verbal communication
• Problem solving
• Effective negotiating
• Setting and achieving operational objectives

One LSC is a new collaborative partnership shared service formed by the five NHS Trusts serving the Lancashire and South Cumbria population of 1.8 million people. We are a shared service run by the NHS, for the NHS and are hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust on behalf of the partner Trusts of the Lancashire and South Cumbria system.

One LSC stands for 'One Lancashire and South Cumbria' and reflects the Lancashire and South Cumbria System ambition to have one team serving Lancashire and South Cumbria in a joined-up way. It is jointly run by the five Trusts as a collaborative partnership. The Trusts that make up One LSC are: · Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust · Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust One LSC brings together the Digital, Data and Technology, Estates and Facilities, Finance, People Services and Procurement and Logistics services from each of the provider Trusts to create one central community of professionals. Under one leadership team, they will provide services for and on behalf of all Trusts. The aim is to bring services more closely together so that we can deliver the best service possible to each of our partner organisations. At the core of One LSC delivery is eliminating duplication, removing unwarranted variation, realisation of the benefits of sharing common systems and processes and ensuring we deliver value for money for our partners, our system and, ultimately, for the communities we serve.

Please note that this post is Part of One LSC - a corporate collaboration hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and providing Estates and Facilities Services to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first‑class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under‑representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, is committed to improving the working lives of its colleagues and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy on aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. As a recruitment service, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first‑class service in recruiting people into positions of trust. It is important to us that we employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone - irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that as an employer we are under‑representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit. We recognise that the recruitment process may present barriers for some and you may need personal adjustments to enable you to participate in our recruitment process. Please make contact with the recruitment team at the earliest opportunity to enable you to apply for this post.

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay‑scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short‑listed.

Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.

Please note: a young person must be in part-time education or training until they're 18. If you are under 18 we are unable to employ you on a full time basis, unless it is in an apprenticeship role. Disclosure and Barring Service checks If the role you've applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this on your behalf and the cost will be recovered from your salary, either as a one-off payment, or over 3 months. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £26.40, Standard DBS check £26.40, Enhanced DBS check £54.40 and Enhanced DBS check with Barred List(s) £54.40. You should be aware that if you are successful in obtaining a position that requires a DBS check but later withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check. DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions. The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here. In line with guidance from United Kingdom Health Security Agency, all staff and volunteers are required to comply with Trust Infection Prevention and Control processes in relation to safe working.