Job overview

We are looking for a reliable, proactive, and hard‑working Waste Services Operative to join our Estates & Facilities team. You will play a key role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant collection and disposal of all waste streams across the Trust. This is a physically active role that supports the smooth running of our hospital services and contributes directly to a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors.

If you are organised, safety‑conscious, and enjoy working as part of a team, we would love to hear from you. 

Waste Collection & Disposal

• Collect all waste types from wards and departments, including:
  clinical, offensive, sharps, domestic, recyclable, confidential, WEEE, batteries, toner, and food waste.
• Ensure correct segregation of waste and safe placement in designated areas within waste compounds.
• Move, clean, and maintain commercial‑sized waste bins.

Safety & Compliance

• Maintain cleanliness and organisation within waste compound areas.
• Ensure all equipment required for duties is kept safe, clean, and well maintained.
• Report any Health and Safety concerns or hazards across the Trust.
• Adhere to all Trust and departmental policies and statutory regulations.

Communication & Teamwork

• Maintain effective communication with the Line Manager and members of the Estates team.
• Respond to allocated tasks within required timeframes and carry them out professionally.
• Attend and contribute to departmental meetings as required.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey