Logistic Operative

Pay Rate: £12.71
Position: Permanent
Contract Type: Full Time
Location: Russells Hall Hospital, Pensnett Road, Dudley, West Midlands, England, DY1 2HQ

This role supports the safe, hygienic, and efficient management of hospital laundry, linen, uniforms, and sterile theatre packs. Key responsibilities include receiving, sorting, packing, storing, issuing, and delivering linen and uniforms while maintaining strict separation between clean, used, and infected items. The postholder operates laundry equipment using approved processes, maintains accurate stock and traceability records, prepares ward orders, checks sterile theatre packs, supports uniform services, and ensures compliance with HTM 01-04, infection prevention, COSHH, health and safety, and information governance requirements. Strong attention to detail, stock control, record-keeping, teamwork, customer service, and the ability to perform physical duties safely are essential, while training is provided in laundry operations, infection control, manual handling, and hospital linen management procedures.

This Waste Porter role supports the safe, compliant, and efficient management of healthcare waste, recycling, equipment movement, and environmental services across the hospital. Responsibilities include collecting, transporting, segregating, storing, and disposing of clinical, infectious, pharmaceutical, confidential, and domestic waste in line with HTM 07-01 and Trust procedures. The postholder maintains waste records, supports recycling initiatives, operates waste-handling equipment when trained, moves equipment and supplies, ensures secure handling of confidential and pharmaceutical waste, and maintains safe waste compounds and storage areas. The role requires strict adherence to infection prevention, COSHH, health and safety regulations, PPE use, incident reporting, manual handling procedures, and environmental sustainability practices. Strong communication, teamwork, customer service, waste segregation awareness, and the ability to work independently in both indoor and outdoor environments are essential.

This role provides a safe, secure, confidential, and customer-focused transport service between hospitals and healthcare sites. Key duties include driving authorised non-HGV vehicles, transporting medicines, blood products, specimens, medical equipment, stores, waste, confidential records, and other approved consignments while maintaining traceability, security, and legal compliance. The postholder performs vehicle safety checks, plans routes, secures loads, maintains accurate records, and follows strict infection prevention, confidentiality, and chain-of-custody procedures. Strong driving, communication, customer service, manual handling, and record-keeping skills are essential. A full UK Category B driving licence is required, along with training in defensive driving, infection control, medicines transport, waste handling, load security, information governance, and health and safety procedures.