Job summary
- Main area
- Waste & Recycling Operative
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 225-EST-7176837
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Cross Hospital
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £24,169 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/05/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Waste & Recycling Operative
Band 2
Job overview
The Waste Management Team aims to provide an excellent support service to the Trust, its patients, visitors and staff.
You will be part of a modernising team providing waste management services to support the Trusts regulatory obligations. The waste management service operates between the hours of 0700 to 2100 7 days a week 365 days a year. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to waste management, be a dedicated team player and show willingness to ensure that an excellent service is provided all year round.
The successful applicant will be required to either hold or work towards achieving an NVQ level 2 in Waste Management or an equivalent qualification. Training will be provided as necessary.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a modernising team providing waste management services to support the Trusts regulatory obligations. The waste management service operates between the hours of 0700 to 2100 7 days a week 365 days a year. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to waste management, be a dedicated team player and show willingness to ensure that an excellent service is provided all year round.
The successful applicant will be required to either hold or work towards achieving an NVQ level 2 in Waste Management or an equivalent qualification. Training will be provided as necessary.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see full list of duties and responsibilites in the attached full job descpription and personal specification
Person specification
Application form
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 2 Waste Management or willingness to work towards NVQ level 2 Waste Management. Or Equivalent academic or vocational experience within a relevant discipline
Application form
Essential criteria
- Work experience in a similar waste management capacity
- Knowledge of waste and recycling industry
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jamie Haines
- Job title
- Deputy Waste Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 307999
- Additional information
Extension - 82027
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