Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-7766400
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ormskirk Hospital
- Town
- Ormskirk
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/02/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/03/2026
Employer heading
Logistics and Porter Manager
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Logistics and Porter Manager to join our Estates and Facilitates Team here at Ormskirk Hospital.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a logistics service across the Trust which includes: - Transport, Stores, and Portering, within the resources allocated.
To be responsible for the management of logistics and portering staff and implementing training as required which meet legislative requirements.
The post holder is directly responsible for maintaining and auditing information producing and monitoring all procedures and standards necessary to deliver the operational service.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
General Management
- To ensure all activities within area of responsibility comply with all current legislation, and Trust policies and procedures.
- Develop and implement policies, procedures and any other associated documentation that support and develop the service, and the wider Trust.
- To develop and implement communication systems and links with all users, and support providers of the services within area of responsibility, including, but not limited to, patients, visitors, Trust staff, external agencies, suppliers and contractors.
- To develop, manage and deliver the day to day Logistical and Portering operation within the Trust.
- Act as contract manager for outsourced services where applicable.
- Represent the service and or the Trust on Logistical and Portering operations at committees, meetings, groups, forums as required.
- Ensure that equipment requirements are identified and allocated to the correct disciplines and emergency response teams are maintained.
- Provide advice and guidance on specialised procedures and involvement in ensuring the resilience of the organisation is maintained.
- Ensure timely response to all in-phase incidents, investigating as necessary and disseminating outcomes to staff.
Line Management/Supervisory Responsibilities
- To manage operational planning and ensure the effectiveness of all staff within areas of responsibility in line with current policies and procedures including but not limited to workforce planning, recruitment, time sheets, absence management, rotas, PDRs, training and development within all staffing levels, mentoring, and discipline.
- To manage and develop effective communication channels to and from staff including but not limited to dissemination of Trust information and feedback from staff on issues that affect them.
- To implement approved business continuity plans in the event of staff shortages.
- Ensure all staff under role responsibility receive regular personal development reviews
- Manage staff rotas to ensure effective use of resource and meet service requirements.
- Manage sickness absence as per Trust policy.
- Manage disciplinary and Grievance matters in line with Trust Policy and procedure.
Risk Management
- To ensure all activities within area of responsibility are managed and operated in line with current H&S legislation, legislative requirements and Trust policies and procedures.
- To develop and maintain service-related risk information on the Trust intranet, other Trust computer software systems (e.g. In Phase), and or shared drives, including but not limited to management of complaints, incidents and risks.
- To carry out risk, manual handling and COSHH assessments for all activities within area of responsibility.
- To provide assistance to managers across the Trust in developing and testing resilience measures where there is Logistical or Portering involvement.
Financial Management & Physical Resources
- To manage budgets within areas of responsibility and ensure that expenditure is controlled within he budgets, reporting any anomalies to line manager. To monitor expenditure and ensure timely identification of budget variances, taking appropriate action to ratify such discrepancies. Authorise expenditure in line with standing financial instructions Includes responsibility for raising orders and all associated documentation (e.g. checking invoices, managing and record keeping of any statutory paperwork).
- Ensure equipment requirements are identified and allocated, within budgetary constraints.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Identify, develop, analyse and produce a range of statistical information, using specialised software programmes and standard office software (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.), and to communicate findings to key stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain service-related databases to plan and develop the service.
- To complete any external or internal returns relating to area of responsibility. (E.g. ERIC returns)
- To act as Information Asset Administrator for software systems managed by the services within area of responsibility.
- To provide advice to a range of users, both internally and externally to the Trust, on Logistical and Portering matters.
Learning & Development
- Influence the development and provision of training in relation to relevant services
- Maintain knowledge of the latest NHS polices and specific guidance.
- To ensure all departments are compliant with mandatory training.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Management qualification to degree level or equivalent knowledge and relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- Hold a Vehicle Operator Licence
- Hold a Driving Licence for vehicles up to and including Medium sized vehicles and trailer (e.g. C1 and C1E)
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and Experience that has included Logistics, stores and Portering, management of that workforce including recruitment, time sheets, absence management, training and development, mentoring, and discipline.
- Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures.
- Knowledge and Experience of risk management, in particular risk, COSHH and manual handling assessments
- Experience of information management including identifying, developing, analysing and producing a range of statistical information.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing budgets
- Experience of working in the NHS environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills dealing with a large and diverse range of services.
- Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a demanding environment against challenging deadlines.
- Well-developed leadership and motivation skills to facilitate working within and leading a large team
- Ability to work on own initiative and organize own and others workload
- Ability to train and motivate workforce and to lead on change
- Ability to use word processing, spread sheets and presentation software to a high level.
Other
Essential criteria
- Sitting at a desk for significant periods of the working day.
- Significant periods of walking.
- Able to regularly identify, develop, analyse and produce a range of reports.
- Able to deal with sudden and often unexpected, tight and/or conflicting timescales
- Able to deal with conflicting work pressures.
- Able to deal with sensitive / upsetting situations involving both patients and staff.
- Ability to work across multiple sites
- Management of services that are 24/7
Desirable criteria
- Occasional driving duties to cover staff shortages.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Pearson
- Job title
- Head of Logistics and Patient Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07796306807
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