Vehicle Detailer - NHS Fleet Solutions

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Seaton Delaval; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Vehicle Detailer to join the Fleet Department in Seaton Delaval. You will ensure that every vehicle leaving for reallocation is presented to the highest standards through meticulous detailing, polishing and cleaning.

The role requires strict adherence to health and safety procedures, as well as timely delivery and collection of vehicles to local customers. Opportunities to learn SMART repair techniques may arise as part of your development.

Qualifications

• Duties include detailing/valeting and polishing vehicles to high standards.
• Adhere to health and safety procedures and company policies.

Responsibilities

• Valet / detail vehicles to the highest possible standards
• Carry out machine polishing to remove surface scratches from vehicles
• Be willing to learn SMART repairing techniques if opportunity arises
• Use cleaning, protective, and restorative agents to enhance appearance
• Carry out internal and external inspections to identify deterioration and damage
• Ensure health and safety procedures and all company policies are adhered to
• Deliver and collect vehicles to and from local customers
• Conduct full damage checks on vehicles

Skills

Vehicle detailing

Polishing

Health & safety

Customer delivery

Job description

The Fleet Department is responsible for the generation of non-core income for re-investment into patient care. The two main areas of success are NHS Fleet Solutions and NHS Home Electronics. Both businesses operate in the competitive salary sacrifice marketplace. An office-based team consisting of 70 members of staff have responsibility for the delivery of the service.

The Vehicle Detailer will report directly to the Assistant Fleet Team Manager and is responsible for ensuring that all vehicles leaving for reallocation are presented to the highest of standards.

Main duties of the job

• Valet / detail vehicles to the highest possible standards
• Carry out machine polishing to remove surface scratches from vehicles
• Be willing to train to learn additional SMART repairing techniques e.g. paintless dent removal, if the opportunity arises.
• Use cleaning, protective, and restorative agents to enhance the appearance of vehicles
• Carry out internal and external inspections of vehicles to identify deterioration and damage
• Ensure health and safety procedures and all company polices are adhered to
• Deliver and collect vehicles to and from local customers
• Conduct full damage checks on vehicles

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!