Job summary
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 Operativewho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest 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 areBold, 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.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest 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.
Job description
Job 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 patients movements.
Job description
Job 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 patients movements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- An understanding of good health and safety practice
- A knowledge of data protection
- Have knowledge of waste types and understand waste segregation
Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- An understanding of good health and safety practice
- A knowledge of data protection
- Have knowledge of waste types and understand waste segregation
Experience
Essential
- 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
- 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
