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Job summary

Main area
Transport
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 2
Contract
18 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
190-0518-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£24,169 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
18/07/2025

Employer heading

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Van Driver and Admin Assistant – Sexual Health Screening

NHS AfC: Band 2

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for the collection of the screening van and driving/delivery of the van to agreed sites across Sheffield. They will ensure stock, resources and equipment is maintained for the delivery of each outreach session and secured at the end of each session. They will register patient details using the Inform software and collect screening attendance information.

Main duties of the job

  • The collection of the screening van from RHH site and transporting to agreed sites across Sheffield based on the planned screening rota and return to base at the end of the session. Some events may take place outside of office hours.
  • Ensure the van is stocked with relevant consumables, resources and equipment to deliver the Sexual health screening service. This will include blood taking consumables and swabbing and PPE equipment.
  • The return and secure storage of consumables, resources and equipment at the end of the session.
  • Provide clerical support, to Sexual Health Screening team. Responsible for registering patients on the Inform system, recording safeguard information and collecting screening attendance information.
  • Support with setting up and clearing away clinical working area prior to and after each clinical activity, and support with cleaning and maintaining safe clinical working environment.
  • Collection and delivery of samples to RHH site for processing.

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives. 

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 18 months (until 31/03/2027) due to the post being recruited as part of a limited term project within the Trust. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the requirement for the post to be maintained as a part of the project’s implementation and the timescales associated with this.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • GCSE at Grade C/4 in English and Maths (or equivalent qualifications) or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience of driving commercial vehicles
  • Previous experience of delivery duties using commercial vehicles
  • Experience using Electronic Patient Record Systems, Electronic Staff record and other NHS information systems.
  • Experience of working in a public facing role.
  • Experience of working with administration processes
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of reversing large trailers
  • Working within a team

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of / experience of using information and/or customer service systems
  • Ability to use initiative.
  • Professional approach at all times when dealing with a variety of people and situations.
  • Good communication and literacy skills
Desirable criteria
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Excel and Word.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Full manual driving licence. Licences issued after 1.1.97 will need the following categories in addition to standard licence: B+E, categories C1 and D1
  • Flexible attitude to working hours.
  • Commitment to undertake all training requirements of the post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Shana Jae Newman
Job title
Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2261466
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