Porter - Waste Services

1 week ago


Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time
We are currently looking to recruit a Porter in our Waste Service Team at Colchester General Hospital.


To provide an efficient high quality Waste service, which meets the work schedules and required ad hoc response times including emergency responses.


As a Porter you will be responsible for transporting, storing, and safely disposing of waste and recycling materials across the Trust site.

Reporting into the Supervisor, working alongside the other Estates and Facilities Management teams, you will play a key part in helping the Trust achieve their environmental objectives.

This role includes general portering duties during staff shortages and emergencies for
which training will be given. It will include the transportation of specimens, goods, medical gases and equipment around the site.

You should be a team player who will support other team members, Facilities Coordinators and Managers. You should have the ability to fulfil the shift patterns within the Portering rota.

Safely transporting waste containers to designated refuse locations

Operating on-site compaction equipment to lift and load waste containers

Ensuring recycling and non-recycling waste items are segregated and stored in accordance to environmental legislation

Routinely Inspecting waste containers to monitor contamination levels

Overseeing the collection and disposal of waste on-site

Ensuring the cleanliness of the refuse area is maintained to a high standard at all times

Monitoring the condition of on-site waste equipment, escalating any defects to Supervisor or Facilities Co-ordinator


To undertake all urgent adhoc and scheduled tasks using the correct equipment within the required response times and in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.


We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex.

Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.


We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic.

This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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