Waste Operative

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

Job summary

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Waste Operative to join the Estates and Facilities team. The role involves removing and transporting waste across our hospitals, with training provided and opportunities to shadow experienced staff.

You will work in a busy, physical environment, ensuring waste is handled safely and in line with trust policies. The job offers varied development opportunities and the chance to contribute to a clean, healthy hospital environment across Lancashire.

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent.
• Full UK driving licence.
• First aid course.
• Manual Handling course.
• Previous experience of waste services.
• Proven ability to work without supervision.
• Previous experience of working in a hospital environment.

Responsibilities

• Remove waste using various methods and transfer to the waste station.
• Carry out manual handling and health and safety training as required.
• Shadow and learn from experienced waste operatives during training.
• Communicate with the Portering Supervisor and colleagues about waste flows.
• Collect waste streams from wards/departments and transport it in a professional manner over a 24‑hour period.

Education

GCSE standard or equivalent

Full UK driving Licence

First aid course

Manual Handling course

Job description

Job overview

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

Do you enjoy working outdoors, are you active, a good communicator and physically fit. Do you like working independently and problem solving? Are you interested in keeping the Hospital environment pleasant, clean and healthy. Then this could be the job for you!

As a Waste operative you’re a valued and vital part of the portering team, you will be dealing with numerous types of waste using various methods of disposal and transportation. We need caring, compassionate people with fabulous customer service skills who are passionate in helping others and always work to their very best to deliver this service across our hospitals. This role is both demanding and physical.

You will join a team of very strong, dedicated, and experienced waste Operatives that work extremely hard together to deliver an efficient service that we are extremely proud of. You will have the chance to shadow one of these experienced staff members as part of your training.

Main duties of the job

As a Waste operative the role would involve the removal of the waste using various methods throughout the trust and transferring it to our recycling waste station. All manual handling and health and safety training will be given and refreshed annually to ensure all tasks are performed in line with trust policies and procedures.

Your main duties will be the transferring of different types of waste following schedules to a set time scales. Waste is transferred using various methods with mechanic aids available.

We are not going to say that this is an easy job; it’s busy, lively, active, and physical. But at the same time this job is extremely rewarding, fulfilling, gratifying, and stimulating.

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 and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Communicate verbally with the Portering Supervisor and colleagues
• Your main duties will be to collecting all waste streams that are generated by our wards and departments and transporting it in a professional and dedicated manor to the waste compound over a 24-hour period.
• Communicate with a range of clinical and non-clinical staff and patients, visitors to understand patient needs.

See the Job description document for a full detailed job description.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

• Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Full UK driving Licence
• First aid course
• Manual Handling course

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of waste services
• Proven ability to work without supervision

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working in a hospital environment