Job summary
- Main area
- Waste
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-2507WO
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £24,465 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Waste Operative
Band 2
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Waste Operative
Division: Estates and Facilities
Care Group: Soft FM
Band: 2
Salary: £24,465 per annum
Interview Date: 20th August 2025
We are recruiting for a Waste Operative who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Waste operatives are an essential part of the hospital team and their primary aim is the welfare of patients either directly or indirectly. They are also responsible for maintaining a comprehensive, professional and responsive high-quality service to patients, staff, visitors and all service users.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide an efficient & timely waste collection service to wards and departments within the Trust.
Collection from waste rooms, areas and departments/wards of all types of waste items including but not limited to:
- Hazardous
- Non-hazardous
- Clinical
- Non-clinical
- Offensive
- Domestic
- Waste electrical items
- Plastics
- Scrap metal
- Chemicals
- Waste cardboard in cages and bins
- Laundry items from internal and external allocated store areas to the laundry if required
- Confidential Waste
- Unwanted and waste furniture items for disposal.
The placing of waste items and containers in the correct store in the Trusts main waste area for collection and final disposal by the trusts nominated waste contractor.
To operate the waste compactors for the emptying of wheelie bins for the correct waste streams
To move closed full and empty waste containers around the Trusts sites carefully whilst taking particular care in areas that have staff, public, and patient’s movements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A good level of general education
- A full clean UK driving licence with minimum of B entitlement. Must be able to operate a manual gearbox
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of good health and safety practice
- A knowledge of data protection
- Have knowledge of waste types and understand waste segregation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience & ability of working as part of a team preferably in waste industry or similar
- Ability to prioritise work load and use your own initiative if required to do so
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication and basic IT Skills
- The ability to complete appropriate forms and accurately record messages.
- The ability to communicate verbally with colleagues and others.
- The ability to manipulate trolleys, cages and containers used for the delivery of items to customers and the ability to lift moderate weights
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Craig McCulloch
- Job title
- Assistant Facilities Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07397 879987
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