Head of Transport - Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Part time

Job description

Job Overview

Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services (BSPS) are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable, and highly flexible individual to fill a part-time job share as Head of Transport based at our Cody Depot at Farnborough.

Keyboard and driving skills are both vital elements of the job

Main duties of the job

1. To support the Head of Transport in running the BSPS transport service, including playing a full role in the strategic corporate leadership of the BSPS transport service and covering the duties of the Head of Transport in their absence.
2. Day-to-day leadership of the BSPS Transport team.
3. To be responsible for setting standards of work within the pathology transport service and ensuring these are promulgated and adhered to.
4. Responsible for the recruitment and training of staff across a complex multi-site, multi-Trust business.
5. Excellent communication skills to enable the job holder to deal with complex communication issues across a wide range of work areas, dealing with staff at all levels as well as demanding customer interactions.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and south Buckinghamshire. We deliver excellent general hospital services to local people and provide specialist services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot, and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users, and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1. Post degree level qualification or equivalent work experience.
2. Specialist knowledge of transport-related issues including health and safety, COSHH.

Desirable criteria

1. Basic computer qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

1. Managing a multi-site Transport and warehouse operation.
2. Management of change; Management of Health and Safety and manual handling issues.
3. Team leadership and management experience.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of COSHH.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

1. Dealing with complex facts surrounding the provision of the transport service.
2. Ability to deal effectively with challenging situations involving either staff or customers.
3. Excellent organisational skills.

Desirable criteria

1. Basic First Aid knowledge.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well-performing, well-led, and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state-of-the-art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users, and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future.

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