Job summary
- Main area
- Transport Driver - Trust Wide Support Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift between 8 am- 7 pm on call out of hrs)
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7262512-B
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maghull Health Park
- Town
- Maghull
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Driver Patient Transport
Band 3
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity to work within the Trust Transport Department as required. The driver is responsible for driving, service users/patients to A&E and outpatient departments, transfer patients between different
Mersey Care units including High secure units, also transfer service users/Patients to hospitals and courts nationwide, transport staff, goods and trust visitors utilising the appropriate trust vehicles.
The Successful candidate must have D1 Drivers Licence and CPC Qualification.
Interview date TBC
Main duties of the job
To work within the Trust Transport Department as required. The driver is responsible for driving, service users/patients to A&E and outpatient departments, transfer patients between different Mersey Care units including High secure units, also transfer service users/Patients to hospitals and courts nationwide, transport staff, goods and trust visitors utilising the appropriate trust vehicles.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To transport all Mersey care service users/patients between different units within Mersey Care, also to hospital appointments court hearing or other units, any locations deemed necessary by the manager including nationwide.
To participate in training, including Mandatory training as required by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. To participate in performance management, PACE whilst maintaining personal responsibility to ensure that all required training is kept up to date.
To adhere to and follow Trust and departmental procedures.
The post holder will be expected to act as a team member in all areas of the Trust.
To carry out daily vehicle maintenance checks and taking appropriate action as required. Work with other members of the Transport Department to ensure that vehicles are clean and fit for purpose at all times and ensuing all documentation complete.
To be accountable for recording accurate information regarding duties, driving hours, mileage, working hours, activities, vehicle searches, financial transactions and other information as required.
To be responsible for reporting to the line manager all untoward incidents and accidents so that the relevant paperwork is completed.
To transport all Mersey Care service users between their place of residence and designated Day Hospitals, Mersey Care Locations, Courts and any other locations in the UK in a safe and secure manner.
To be responsible for operating the GPS system fitted in vehicles and to maintain communication with the Transport office.
To assist patients and staff to enter and exit the vehicle in a safe manner.
Following appropriate training- to be responsible for the securing of powered and manual wheelchairs within the vehicle.
To liaise with and maintain relationships with management, supervisory and nursing staff at all locations.
To be responsible for liaising with relevant clinical staff for any concerns with reference to service users.
Following appropriate training – to be responsible for the safe transportation of oxygen across trust sites in line with relevant HSE legislation and guidance
To assist the nursing staff cleaning spillages within the vehicle.
To ensure toilets on the vehicles are empty after use.
To work an ‘On call’ service as necessary to ensure a continuous 24 hour transport service for the Trust.
Please refer to attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Clean full UK driving licence
- D1 entitlement on driving licence
- Ability to carry out manual and driving tasks, function as a member of a team and support the management objectives of the department and trust
- Able to use a phone and deal with telephonic requests from service users, managers and staff in a friendly and helpful way
- Ability to use GPS
- Transportation of Hazardous materials (oxygen)
- Able to use a computer for data entry and simple data processing and communication tasks.
Desirable criteria
- Any trade, catering, laundry, stores, escorting experience in the organisation or similar
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent geographical knowledge of Merseyside Area and uk
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS in a role managed by a supervisor or facilities management assistant
- Good geographical knowledge of Merseyside area and the UK
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent
- Certificate of professional competence (CPC)
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience and training is safety, health, and any catering, cleaning, estates, portering, driving tasks
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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
- Kutsal Ozcan
- Job title
- Facilities Site Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 4595658
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