Refuse & Recycling Loader

**Location**: Haywards Heath RH16 1UA
**Salary**: £25,552.00 per annum + excellent benefits
**Full Time**: 39 hours per week
**Working hours**: Monday - Thursday 7am - 4pm and Fridays 7am - 3pm.
Ready to make an impact?
As a Refuse & Recycling Loader in our West Sussex team, you'll provide a complete waste and recycling service on behalf of the residents and community in Haywards Heath. With a professional, dedicated and friendly team of Refuse Collection staff, we ensure that streets, homes and businesses are kept clean, safe and tidy, whilst providing the very best levels of customer service to all members of the community that we serve.
**You’ll be entrusted to**:
You will set off on a pre planned route with the driver you are working with collecting waste and recycling from residential homes and commercial properties.
You will be the public face of Serco’s Environmental Services team in the community.
A responsibility to keep the area remaining beautiful, safe and a clean place to live and work, a responsibility we take great pride in.
Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you are...
Hard working
Physically fit and healthy due to the nature of the business
Hold plenty of enthusiasm and a big smile
Be willing to go the extra mile whilst on your rounds to enable your team to hit their targets.
Team player
Punctual
Discover all you need to keep growing
Here you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities - and the support and tools to help you seize them. Because this is a place for you
Our people are integral to everything we do. That’s why our benefits are designed to put you first:
**Holidays**: 22 days plus bank holidays
**Pension**: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
**Training and development**: A wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
**Health and wellbeing**: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, Simplyhealth cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
**Discounts**: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel.
**ShareSave scheme**: Helps you save regularly with the choice to buy Serco shares at a discount at the end of your savings period.
**Employee networks**: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community.
**Charity**: Support a charity or organisation with a paid volunteering day each year. You can also choose to donate to your favourite charity tax-free, through our Payroll Giving Scheme.
A little bit about us
At Serco, we’re a fast-growing company, serving governments around the globe. Our work spans sectors a wide range of sectors including Justice, Immigration, Defence, Leisure, Healthcare, Transport, and Citizen Services. We’re committed to delivering, improving and redesigning public services for the benefit of everyone, guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation, and Pride.
**Our inclusive recruitment process**: We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We’re a proud holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard and a Disability Confident Leader, championing fair access to employment and equal opportunities for all. As such we’re open to flexible working arrangements and we’ll make reasonable adjustments from interview through to employment.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
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At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.