Float Courier Driver

at  East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

We are looking for a courier driver who will provide cover for planned and unplanned absence in the team. The ESHT Couriers provide an essential service collecting and delivering items to health care centres in East Sussex. The Trust operates 11 courier rounds. These rounds each have fixed schedules with 8 hour days, including a 30 minute break. Round start times currently range from 0600 to 11:30, and finish times range from 1400 to 19:30. Applicants will need to be able to work flexible hours, covering rounds as needed. Typically advance notice is given of work times, but occasionally short term changes to work times may be needed.”
We are looking for individuals with a good deal of driving experience, a clean driving licence and a good geographical knowledge of East Sussex to join our team.
The successful candidates will have several years of driving experience, commercial or otherwise, and have driven vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes. Applicants are required to have the ability to use own initiative, and have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
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Job description subject to change.
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