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Location:
Carlisle
Employment:
Full time

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Job Tittle : Waste operative
Salary : £25,272 per annum
Position Type: Permanent
Employment Type: Full time
Total Weekly Contractual Hours: 37.5 hours
Location: Cumberland Infirmary, Newtown Road, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, CA2 7HY

Key Responsibilities

Collect, segregate, and safely store all waste streams for collection by approved subcontractors in accordance with site procedures, and environmental regulations.
Collect and safely store all soiled linen for collection by subcontractors during weekend service periods, ensuring compliance with infection prevention and control procedures.
Carry out equipment, furniture, and departmental moves as requested, ensuring safe handling and completion within agreed response times.
Maintain waste areas in a clean, organised, and safe condition.
Complete all quality assurance documentation, records, and electronic systems accurately and in a timely manner.
Report incidents, hazards, defects, and non-compliance issues in accordance with organisational procedures.
Ensure all duties are undertaken in line with Health and Safety legislation, manual handling regulations, infection prevention requirements, and site policies.
Use personal protective equipment (PPE) appropriately and at all times when required.
Maintain a professional and customer-focused approach when interacting with patients, visitors, clinical staff, and colleagues.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Understanding of health and safety requirements in a workplace environment.
Ability to follow procedures and work safely with minimal supervision.
Good communication and teamwork skills.
Ability to carry out manual handling activities safely.
Basic literacy and numeracy skills to complete records and documentation accurately.

Experience working within a healthcare, facilities management, waste, or logistics environment.
Knowledge of waste segregation and infection prevention procedures.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.