Environmental Services Officer

The designation of Environmental Services Officer applies to a self-motivated member of the workforce. Their duties are to ensure that day-to-day handling and disposal of waste is in accordance with approved practices.

The Environmental Services Officer will be employed to cover any post on any shift in the team. Collecting waste and or laundry from areas around the hospital and transport it to the Trust's Waste Transfer Station or waste storage points.

They will join an integrated team responsible for all waste and laundry collection/storage together with any other environmental service as determined by the Environmental Services Site Supervisor., 1. Collect all hospital waste and laundry in accordance with the schedules set by the Environmental Services Supervisor.
2. Segregate, transport and process specific categories of waste as dictated by the Trust's "Policy for the Management of Waste".
3. To operate the Trust's electric vehicles, bulk waste compaction machines.
4. To ensure that all aspects of the Waste Permit Conditions are adhered to.
5. Place specific categories of waste in the appropriate skip for off site disposal or recycling, as indicated by the Environmental Services Supervisor.
6. Cleaning of bulk waste storage areas and waste containers as per schedule determined by the Environmental Services Supervisor.
7. Carry out external environmental duties, as per schedule including the collection of litter, emptying of bins.
8. Carry out inspections of all mobile equipment used.

9. Follow the incident reporting procedure in the event of accidents occurring during environmental activities.
11. To carry out any other duties, appropriate to the role, as may be delegated., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

• GCSE or other qualifications/equivalent


• Electric Vehicle Driver License or pass an electric vehicle course


Desirable criteria


• Environmental qualifications


• Full UK Drivers Licence, Working as part of a team


• Working with the public


Desirable criteria


• Experience of waste management / handling activities


• Experience of operating electric vehicles or other plant, Have good verbal communication skills., Willingness to learn


• Flexibility
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.


The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond., 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.