Environment Auditor

Job summary

The post holder will be required to carry out waste management, cleaning, and place inspections, deliver timely and accurate reports to the clients, and assist with corrective actions. Audits will take place across various sites in Kent and Medway and the post will require driving to these locations on a regular basis.

The successful applicant will take direction from the Waste & Environment Manager and will work in collaboration with support services, and other service lines, focussing on quality and compliance improvements.

The post holder will monitor non-clinical contracts within Site Management and assist with the development of all non-clinical services as directed by the Waste & Environment Manager. There will also be a requirement to support the Waste & Environment Manager in the delivery of waste and environmental contract services monitoring and administration.

The Environment Auditor will provide professional advice and work within the Environment Team to support and help achieve the KMPT Green Plan targets and sustainability goals.

Main duties of the job

Required to plan allocation of tasks on a weekly basis to ensure deadlines are met. Arrange and coordinate meetings & audits with relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with trust policies. Undertake annual waste audits of client premises to check the management of waste against the standards laid out in the most up-to-date version of the Department of Health's HTM 07-01: Safe Management of Healthcare Waste. Undertake regular cleaning audits of client premises to check the cleaning service provided against the standards laid out in the most up-to-date version of the NHS National Specification for Cleanliness. All audits will require travel across Kent and Medway, the post holder will need a full UK driving license. Complete and distribute all audit reports in a timely and professional manner, this will require the use of Microsoft programs. Collate data and prepare cleaning reports on a monthly basis. Provide secretarial, data inputting, and analytical support to the Waste & Environment Manager. To ensure waste is disposed of in accordance with the Trust waste disposal policy, assuring health and safety standards are adhered to

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will contribute to the improvement of multi-professional working within and outside the service line to ensure safety and best practices within the service line. The post holder will take direction from the Waste & Environment Manager and will work in collaboration with support services and other service lines focussing on quality and compliance improvements.

The post holder will support the Waste & Environment Manager in the delivery of waste and environmental contract services monitoring and administration. KMPT is part of a Total Waste Management Consortium.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Person Specification

Evidence

Essential

Full UK Driving License High level of computer literacy including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications

Desirable

Qualifications in a waste or environmental related discipline

Experience

Desirable

Working knowledge of the NHS documents on the Safe Management of Healthcare Waste, National Cleaning Specification and PLACE requirements. Auditing experience in a similar environment

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