Job summary
- Main area
- Transport
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time 15hrs
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (Days)
- Job ref
- 151-SL0459
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- X98 Building Cody Business Park
- Town
- Farnborough
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 per annum incl HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Transport - Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Band 8a
Job overview
Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services BSPS are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable, and highly flexible individual to fill a part time job share as Head of Transport based at our Cody Depot at Farnborough.
Keyboard and driving skills are both vital elements of the job
Main duties of the job
- To support the Head of Transport in running the BSPS transport service. To include playing a full role in the strategic corporate leadership of the BSPS transport service. To cover the duties of the Head of Transport in their absence.
- Day to day leadership of the BSPS Transport team.
- To be responsible for setting standards of work within the pathology transport service and ensuring these are promulgated and adhered to.
- Responsible for the recruitment and training of staff across a complex multi-site, multi-Trust business.
- Excellent communication skills to enable the job holder to deal with complex communication issues across a wide range of work areas, dealing with staff at all levels as well as demanding customer interactions.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post degree level qualification or equivalent work experience.
- specialist knowledge of transport related issues including health and safety, COSHH.
Desirable criteria
- Basic computer qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Managing a multi-site Transport and warehouse operation.
- Management of change; Management of Health and Safety and manual handling issue
- Team leadership and management experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of COSHH
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Dealing with complex facts surrounding the provision of the transport service
- Ability to deal effectively with challenging situations involving either staff or customers
- Excellent organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Basic First Aid knowledge;
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Peter Jones
- Job title
- Deputy General Manager, Pathology Support Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07824 147431
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