Refuse Loader

Job Information
Looking for a career where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a real difference in your community? Join our team as Refuse Loaders through our staff bank.

We're seeking dedicated individuals across our Northumberland depots

(Blyth, Morpeth, Hexham, Alnwick, Stakeford, Berwick).

**Job Title**: Refuse Loader

**Salary Rate**: £11.78ph - £11.98ph

Looking for a career where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a real difference in your community? Join our team as Refuse Loaders through our staff bank.

We're seeking dedicated individuals across our Northumberland depots, (Blyth, Morpeth, Hexham, Alnwick, Stakeford, Berwick).

**Job Purpose**

Contribute to the provision of an efficient and effective refuse collection & recycling service.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provide efficient refuse collection and recycling service in accordance with schedules and Council policy.
- Collect various types of waste, including household, industrial, and clinical waste, as well as emptying bins and removing dead animals.
- Liaise with service users and the public courteously, providing advice and information on waste services when required.
- Ensure work is completed within specified service standards and timeframes.
- Perform work safely and responsibly, adhering to relevant risk assessments.
- Complete paperwork to record any problems encountered during collections and report faults with equipment.
- Operate machinery, equipment, and tools in accordance with manufacturers' guidelines.
- Collaborate with team colleagues to achieve work plans and maintain quality standards.
- Respond to and resolve simple problems, referring complex issues to immediate supervisor.
- Provide cover for other frontline Local Services as required.

**Work Arrangements**:
**Physical requirements**: Walking long distances, extensive lifting, pulling, and pushing.

**Transport requirements**: Occasional travel to other work sites for cover or training.

**Working patterns**: Ad Hoc, temporary. Normal working week, Monday to Thursday, with early mornings, occasional evenings, weekends, and Bank Holiday working.

**Working conditions**: Outdoor work in all weathers and traffic conditions, including hazardous and unpleasant waste reception facilities.

**Experience required**:

- Relevant knowledge of tasks and equipment operation.
- NVQ 2 in Waste Management or equivalent.
- Awareness of Health & Safety legislation.
- Accredited training in safe manual handling techniques.
- Previous relevant experience.
- Ability to understand and follow instructions.
- Basic record-keeping skills.
- Strength, dexterity, and coordination for manual work.
- Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions and in hazardous environments.
- Reliable and punctual.
- Committed to public service ethics, quality, and customer service.
- Adaptable and supportive in team working.
- Willingness to undertake job-related training.

Northumberland County Council’s Staff Bank provides a pool of highly skilled temporary workers who are looking for a long-term placement, or who want to work flexibly within the council. If a team needs support due to sickness, common staff shortages, or general vacancies, they call upon registered bank members to fill available assignments. These can be filled via a long-term assignment for up to 12 months or on an ad hoc basis.

Benefits of joining NCC’s Staff Bank include:

- Flexible contract - work and earn alongside your current commitments
- Career opportunities - Build and increase your employability and professional network with the opportunity to gain fixed term and permanent contracts.
- Try different roles within the organisation to find your fit.
- Develop new skills and enhance current expertise to help supplement your career.

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