# Facilities Support

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Maudsley Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Support role
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £31,554 - £33,270 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent: 6 Months
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9-5)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29T09:40:36.640Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Southwark/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Facilities_Support/Facilities_Support-v8289121
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8289121?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Facilities Support to work at Maudsley Hospital for the Facilities Department, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Working closely with the Facilities Team Leader.

The successful applicant will have good organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills.

You will communicate with patients, carers, and visitors as well as SLAM staff and health professionals. The post holder will be comfortable with IT and be keen to learn new software packages and processes.

This is a challenging role, driving Trust vehicles, delivering post and laundry around the sites, collection of general, confidential, and clinical waste, also completing small-scale furniture moves

Please see the job description and person specification for further information.

### Main duties of the job

To help provide a front line fully comprehensive, professional, and courteous Facilities service for the stakeholders of the Site and Community Sites

As part of the Site’s facilities team, the postholder supports the delivery of hotel services, waste disposal, and collection and delivery of equipment and clinical items.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Respond to and update Planet FM service requests
- Collection of clinical waste, domestic waste, general waste, confidential waste and laundry from internal departments and associated properties on the main hospital site, ensuring the correct method of storage, disposal and transportation is complied with and that equipment is always locked, reporting issues as they arise.
- Segregation of waste and yard management, including Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (W.E.E.E.) waste items.
- Collect and distribute items including post, pharmaceuticals, moving furniture & other items across the site and to Trust community properties.
- Assist Facilities Team Leader as required with emergency evacuation or other emergency situations.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of providing a service to the general public

**Desirable**

- Experience of driving larger vehicles
- Previous NHS experience in a Mental Health setting

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Full, clean manual driving licence without restriction ,
- Working knowledge of Health and Safety at Work Act

**Desirable**

- GCSE or Equivalent A-C Qualification
- Fire Warden trained
- SIA CCTV registered

### Knowledge/Skills

**Essential**

- Able to communicate clearly, calmly courteously and diplomatically with all levels of staff, patients and carers, some of whom may be distressed.
- Able to work flexibly, responding to changing priorities.
- Need to be able to carry out moving and handling duties with the required training and equipment.
- Good written and spoken English
- Able to enter data onto a computer system accurately.

**Desirable**

- Previous NHS experience in a Mental Health setting
- Moving & Handling Certification

## Documents

- [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341)
- [happy to talk flexible working (pdf, 680.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1723)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10616870)

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