Job summary
- Main area
- Make Ready
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Rotating shift pattern, 50% days/ nights including weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 308-CORP-3214
- Employer
- London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helier Ambulance Station
- Town
- Morden
- Salary
- £30,630 - £32,346 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Make Ready Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 3
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.
We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city. We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.
We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.
We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time
Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.
Job overview
This role is based on three core functions:
o Trolley bed collection
o Vehicle deep cleaning
o Emergency decontamination cleaning
The post holder will be responsible for collecting LAS trolley beds from hospitals and
delivering these to local ambulance stations ensuring beds are transported safely and in
line with both Health & Safety and IPC requirements.
The post holder will ensure that vehicles are deep cleaned to standard and in accordance
with service scheduling.
Emergency vehicles may often transfer patients where they have been infested with bed
bugs, large blood and bodily fluid spillages, or with infectious organisms and consequence
or drug resistance. The post holder will be required to ensure that all emergency
decontamination clean jobs are cleaned to a high standard, following this ensure vehicles
and equipment are clean and ready to meet the daily operational requirement.
Main duties of the job
- Visit hospital sites to arrange collection of trolley beds.
- Deliver trolley beds across Trust estate.
- Work to a dedicated route for trolley bed collection adapting to ad-hoc requests for additional collections.
- To undertake a deep clean of Trust vehicles on a six weekly basis, as directed by management team.
- Undertake standard and enhanced decontamination cleaning of Trust vehicles as required, maintaining strict adherence to Infection Prevention Control and Health & Safety standards.
- Respond to emergency decontamination requests often requiring mobilisation to different sites.
- Use initiative to manage competing and dynamic priorities whilst ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.
- Undertake the delivery and collection of all decontamination cleaned vehicles as directed.
- Plan completion of decontamination of vehicles to strict deadlines and any other operational requirements.
- Undertake all driving duties associated holding a C1 driving licence.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of the job description and main responsibilities, please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current UK Driving Licence full manual driving licence (no more than 3 penalty points)
- C1 category on driving license
- Good standard of written and verbal English
- GCSE English level 4/ grade C or equivalent level of education
Desirable criteria
- Must be willing to undertake any training as required by LAS
Experience
Essential criteria
- 1 year of driving experience
- Previous cleaning experience
- Previous experience of decontamination cleaning
- Upon commencement in role, additional training will be given to undertake AdBlue, deep cleaning and to be able to carry out functional testing on medical equipment
- Experience of working within a public service or customer care environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of driving around London and driving larger vehicles
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to follow instructions and to work on own initiative
- Excellent attention to detail
- Effective communication skills both verbal and written.
- Good understanding of basic vehicle safety
- Ability to follow processes and procedures (inc. IPC, security and H&S)
- Basic computer skills/ IT literate
- Good Interpersonal skills and can be a team player
- Ability to maintain records
- Ability to meet deadlines
- The ability to work with cleaning products (chemicals) for a prolonged time
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of infectious diseases and appropriate cleaning regime
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Carpenter
- Job title
- Operational Delivery Manager South
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07905768849
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