Materials and Equipment Operative in Southampton

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team at UHS Estates Ltd (UEL). This role is key in ensuring the right equipment and consumable goods get to the right place, at the right time. This is to ensure that the clinical services can treat patients efficiently and effectively, with lots of support from a dedicated management team within UEL. The successful candidate will be working within a small team of 7 people, covering 7 days a week on a roster with shift patterns between 07:30-19:30. The service supports the operating theatres and labs of a 24/7 acute teaching hospital, providing major trauma and countless tertiary services across the South of England.

UHS Estates Limited (UEL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). We are responsible for the design, construction, and ongoing maintenance of hospital buildings, as well as soft facilities management and the provision of essential equipment, consumables, and materials.

Employee Benefits:

• Generous NHS pension scheme
• NHS terms of service and annual leave
• Access to an employee benefits platform offering discounts on groceries, high street shopping, family outings, holidays, and more

Southampton offers an excellent quality of life, located on the south coast with an international airport and direct train links to London. The area boasts the stunning New Forest National Park, beautiful beaches along the Jurassic Coast, and living costs around 20% lower than in London. With 14 Ofsted-rated “Outstanding” schools, it’s a great place to live and work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

The post holder will be part of a team responsible for ensuring that goods and materials are distributed around the Hospital to the relevant location. This will include moving cages of items, delivering sterile trays to the relevant theatres and restocking storerooms. Other tasks include moving gas bottles and emptying theatre scrub machines.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

Getting to work - our travel promise:

Getting to work should be as easy as possible and that’s why we have introduced the UEL travel promise – a commitment from the Organisation that we will provide reasonable travel options for every member of staff. Every member of staff can apply for a permit to use our park & ride facility. Eligibility for on-site parking is dependent on the nature and requirement of the role. All staff can also access a range of discounted benefits relating to travel including reduced price bus tickets, purchase of salary sacrifice bikes and ultra-low emission cars.

Our commitment to equality:

Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance. UEL actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens.

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