Transport Driver

Main area: Transport

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 2

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Job share, Flexible working 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday. Service hours are 05:00 - 23:00)

Site: Wrightington Hospital, Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, Wrightington, WN6 9EP

Salary: £25,272 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 07/07/2026 23:59

Job overview: We currently have a great opportunity within our Transport team for a Transport Driver. The role is full time, working various shifts Monday - Friday within operational service hours of 05:00 to 23:00. THIS ROLE REQUIRES A D1 LICENCE CLASSIFICATION WITH THE ABILITY TO DRIVE A 17-SEATER MINIBUS.

Main duties of the job:

• To support the delivery of patient care by the transportation of goods, linen, pharmacy supplies, medical specimens, and Trust staff around the Trust and deliver/pick up from other contracted service users.
• To maintain vehicles in a clean & tidy state and promote good customer service to users.
• To complete legal & service required checks.

Planning and Organisational Duties:

• Understand transport rules & regulations in relation to the vehicle being driven.
• Work to standard operational procedures, and allocated duties.
• Ensure daily vehicle checks are carried out.
• Will be required to move, handle and distribute a variety of goods, which may be light, heavy or fragile, includes transportation of staff.
• Will be expected to drive classes of vehicles ranging from small vans, mini-buses and vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes tail lift.
• Ensure compliance with route information and collection/delivery points.
• Will be responsible for the regular cleaning (inside & out) of vehicles, vehicle inspection checks, and for reporting faults to the Transport Supervisor.
• Will respect the confidentiality of all goods carried.
• Understand the implications of information Governance.
• Co-ordinate and maintain all records as directed.
• Promote within and on behalf of Transport Services, excellent public relations with patients, visitors and staff as well as members of the public.
• Could be required to process and sort mail.
• Must fully comply with all Trust Departmental policies and procedures at all times and attend all training sessions as and when required.

Communications and Key Working Relationships:

• Communication with clients about changes or disruption to planned deliveries.
• Communicates with public or clients when delivering, may have to park in areas for delivery/collection which cause disruption.
• Maintain calm behaviour when faced with unhappy staff if staff services are unavoidably delayed.

Responsibility for Finance:

• Always ensure the security of the vehicle.
• Record fuel input activity and ensure fuel saving driving techniques are used.
• Responsible for vehicle and contents when driving and on the route.

Responsibility for Human Resources:

• Demonstrate own duties to new starters.
• Attend courses as directed, ensure compliance with mandatory training.
• Compliance with Trust and Local procedures.
• Complete timesheet or work record.

Responsibility for Health & Safety:

• Responsible for ensuring own safety at work.
• Must adhere to the Highway Code and Trust road signs at all times on Trust business.
• Manage spillages if they occur.
• Report any defects to Supervisors.
• Significant manual handling required, moving linen bags, heavy boxes and fragile items.
• Could be moving goods in unpleasant weather conditions.
• Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 – the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all their actions.
• This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.

Responsibility for Teaching:

• Demonstrate own duties to new starters.

Work Circumstances & on-call:

• Could be required to work unsocial hours.
• Provide cover for other journeys and tasks.
• Could be required to work flexible hours.
• To undertake any other reasonable requests within the Trust transport department.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Basic numeracy & literacy qualifications.
• Valid driving licence for relevant classes of vehicle, eg D1 minibus licence, heavy goods vehicle etc.
• Clean Driving Licence.
• Fuel saving training.

Experience:

• Experience of working within a similar environment.
• Considerable experience employed as a driver.
• Understanding of basic vehicle checks.
• Knowledge of vehicle activity records.

Skills:

• Skills relating to manual handling use of sack trucks etc.
• Relevant skills for driving different classes of vehicles.
• Skills relating to minor maintenance of vehicles.
• Advanced driving skills.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge and operational experience of a variety of vehicles.
• Proven knowledge of the local area.
• Knowledge of Trust sites and associated departments.

Additional:

• Flexibility to provide cover for colleagues.
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.

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.