Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To drive Trust owned vehicles complying at all times with current Road Traffic Acts and rules within the current Highways Code.

• To ensure Samples are collected in a timely manner in accordance with the route timetable.

• To ensure that the schedule is adhered to within the timetable provided, ensuring compliance with speed limits inside and outside the hospital grounds as well as all relevant motoring law.  Making sure that the vehicle is driven and parked in a professional manner at all times

• To load the vehicle in such a way as to prevent damage or loss of goods in transit and that all goods are delivered in good order to the various district clinics, General Practitioners & Health Service deliveries.   

• To ensure that vehicle checks are undertaken as per standing instructions at the start of each day that oil, water and fuel levels etc. are correct.

• To report immediately any incident or R.T.A. whilst undertaking the Driver duties.

• To report immediately any incident that may or will result in penalty points on your Driving Licence or disqualification of.

• To make sure that all Health & Safety and C.O.S.H.H advice is adhered to.

• Ensure that the vehicle is kept clean and tidy inside and out at all times, and is parked safely and securely when driver is away from vehicle.

• Complete at the end of each day all paperwork including vehicle log sheets, defect reports, time sheets where applicable.

·           Remove full waste bins (domestic & clinical) and replace with empty bins.

·           Remove dirty laundry and replace with clean linen.

·           Move office furniture and equipment (including office moves from one location to another).

·           To work as a team member with flexibility for all areas of the department as and when required.

·           To empty all external waste bins daily.

·           To empty the brown cardboard bins and bail using the cardboard bailer, ensuring correct use of handling and operating the equipment.

·           To assist compacting waste.

·           To collect all confidential red bins once full and exchange for empty red bins in scheduled areas.

·           To collect all sharps, cytoxic, anotomical and pharmaceutical waste from all wards and departments, ensuring the cytoxic and pharmaceutical waste is stored securely as instructed.

·           To sweep set areas as identified by the Supervisor/Manager as and when instructed.

·           To be familiar with and follow health and safety policy and procedures and to be aware of individual responsibilities under legislation, drawing any areas of potential risk to the managers.

·           To aid in loading/offloading stores to wards and departments and to stock designated wards in the designated stores cupboard.

·           To collect and distribute internal and external post as and when required.

·           To cover in all Facilities areas/services as and when required.

·           To undertake any other duties or tasks as reasonably required.

Communications

·         Verbal communication between peers and managers. Job related reporting of faults etc.

·         To deal with queries and complaints with courtesy and understanding referring them where necessary to the Supervisor.

Responsibility for Patient Care

·         To always present professionally and helpful if ever in contact with a patient.

Planning and organising

·         To follow the schedule for collections from Surgeries and clinics in a timely manner.

·         A degree of flexibility is required for ad hoc requests

Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources

·         Ensure safe and efficient use of equipment, resources and consumables at all times.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation

·         To be aware of, comment on and/or actively participate in changes on policies, procedures or service developments.

·         To embrace and support other areas within the Logistics sphere in making service improvements effective within the workplace.

Responsibilities for Human Resources and Leadership

·         Support new or less experienced work colleagues to adapt to the workplace.

Responsibilities for Teaching and Training

·         Participate in training and development activities that are relevant to the job role.

Responsibilities for data and information resources

·         Participate in training and development activities that are relevant to the job role.

Research, Development and Audit

·      To undertake any other duties deemed appropriate to the band when requested by Senior Staff.

Physical Skills and Effort

·         To carry sample boxes to and from clinics, to correctly lift and manoeuvre when carrying boxes.

·         The ability to carry out this physically demanding role which entails the post holder physically pushing bins and linen cages around the Hospital and clearing furniture and moving items from stores regularly

General Duties for all employees

Hand Hygiene

To assist the Trust in reducing healthcare acquired infections (HCAI’s) all staff should be familiar with all the Trust’s Infection Prevention policies which are appropriate to their role. You are required to attend mandatory training in Infection Prevention and be compliant with all measures known to be effective in reducing HCAI’s”

Safeguarding

All Stockport Foundation Trust employees are required to act in such a way that at all times safeguards and promotes the health and well-being of children, young people and vulnerable adults.  Familiarisation with and adherence to the policies and procedures relating to child protection and safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults are adhered to. It is the responsibility of all staff to report any concerns and they must therefore be aware of child and adult safeguarding procedures and who to contact within the Trust for further help and guidance.  It is an essential requirement of all employees as is participation in mandatory safeguarding training in accordance with the employees roles and responsibilities.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

 If successful this vacancy will require a Standard DBS check at a cost of £26.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.