Waste Porter - Driver

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

Job Summary

To provide and maintain a flexible, dedicated, comprehensive frontline support service to the staff and patients and provide a support service to other departments of the Trust. This involves undertaking a wide range of duties including moving and handling that enable the clinical and non-clinical departments to function effectively.

Job Summary

To provide and maintain a flexible, dedicated, comprehensive frontline support service to the staff and patients and provide a support service to other departments of the Trust. This involves undertaking a wide range of duties including moving and handling that enable the clinical and non-clinical departments to function effectively.

Duties And 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.

Additional information

BTH is part of the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Collaborative, therefore all roles will be required to support system wide working across the Lancashire & South Cumbria regions.

General Requirements

Quality

Each Member Of Staff Is Required To Ensure That

• The patient and customer are always put first;
• That in all issues, the patient/customer requirements are met and all staff contribute fully to achieving the Trust’s corporate goals and objectives;
• That all staff hold themselves personally responsible for the quality of their work and therefore seek to attain the highest standards achievable within their knowledge, skills and resources available to them in furtherance of the Trust’s Vision and in embedding the organisation’s Values.

Confidentiality

Each member of the Trust’s staff is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality of any information relating to patients and for complying with all the requirements of the Data Protection Act whilst carrying out the duties of the post. Any breaches in confidentiality will be dealt with by the Trust Disciplinary Procedure and may result in dismissal.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Justin Emery Job title: Portering Services Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01253 955331