Make Ready Specialist

• The purpose of the role is to support the delivery of excellent clinical care for patients by having the right equipment and products and vehicles available at the right place at the right time.
• This role is based on three core functions:1) Trolley bed collection2) Vehicle deep cleaning3) Emergency decontamination cleaning
• The post holder will be responsible for collecting LAS trolley beds from hospitals and delivering these to local ambulance stations ensuring beds are transported safely and in line with both Health & Safety and Infection Prevention Control requirements, under the direction of the Hub Coordinator.
• The post holder will ensure that vehicles are cleaned to standard and in accordance with service scheduling.

Main duties of the job

• Visit hospital sites to arrange collection of trolley beds.
• Work to a dedicated route for trolley bed collection adapting to ad-hoc requests for additional collections.
• To undertake a deep clean of Trust vehicles on a six weekly basis, as directed by management team.
• Undertake standard and enhanced decontamination cleaning of Trust vehicles as required, maintaining strict adherence to Infection Prevention Control and Health & Safety standards.
• Respond to emergency decontamination requests often requiring mobilisation to different sites.
• Use initiative to manage competing and dynamic priorities whilst ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.
• Undertake the delivery and collection of all decontamination cleaned vehicles as directed.
• Plan completion of decontamination of vehicles to strict deadlines and any other operational requirements.
• Undertake all driving duties associated holding a C1 driving licence.

About us

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. Our strategy outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:

• Our care- delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
• Our organisation- being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
• Our London- using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.

To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.

Job responsibilities

For further details of the job description and main responsibilities, please see attached job description.

Person Specification Qualifications and Education

• Current UK Driving Licence full manual driving licence (no more than 3 penalty points)
• Basic DBS check will be carried out
• C1 category on driving license
• GCSE English level 4/ grade C or equivalent level of education

Experience

• 1 year of driving experience
• Previous cleaning experience
• Previous experience of decontamination cleaning
• Experience of working within a public service or customer care environment

Knowledge and Skills

• Effective communication skills both verbal and written.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good understanding of basic vehicle safety
• Ability to follow processes and procedures (inc. IPC, security and H&S)

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.

£29,651 to £31,312 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS