# Sterile Services Driver

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/sterile-services-driver/d1d7ac7f-0adb-455f-833e-b829c401b12e
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/sterile-services-driver/d1d7ac7f-0adb-455f-833e-b829c401b12e.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Town:** Blackburn
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Salary:** £25,272 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.52 hours per week (Plus every 3rd weekend)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06T11:12:54.515Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Chorley/East_Lancashire_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Sterile_Services_Driver/Sterile_Services_Driver-v8133557
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8133557?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.elht.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Please note that this post is Part of One LSC – a corporate collaboration hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and providing Estates and Facilities Services to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

### To  deliver re-usable medical devices. to deliver soft packs to wards and other users. To partake in a rota to complete delivery/ collection schedule for instruments between Trust sites.

### Main duties of the job

To Participate in the Departments logistics schedule to undertake collections and deliveries of instruments between Trust sites and manage vehicle in line with Trusts’ Transport Handbook

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To deliver and collect instrumentation between Chorley and  Preston hospital.

To ensure that all daily checks are done on the van every day and report any defects immediately to manager.

Involves  long hours of driving, lifting and pushing of medical transport trolleys of medical equipment

## Job Description

To Participate in the Departments logistics schedule to undertake collections and deliveries of instruments between Trust sites and manage vehicle in line with Trusts’ Transport Handbook

## Responsibilities

To deliver and collect instrumentation between Chorley and Preston hospital.

To ensure that all daily checks are done on the van every day and report any defects immediately to manager.

Involves long hours of driving, lifting and pushing of medical transport trolleys of medical equipment

## Person Specification

### Skills & Abilities

**Essential**

- Good Interpersonal skills
- Experience of working as a team
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Willing to be flexible and adaptable in working practices
- Aware of own training needs and willing to undertake any appropriate training
- Good Manual Dexterity
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent Manual Handling skills
- Ability to stand for long periods
- Have knowledge of roads in local areas

### Knowledge & Experience

**Essential**

- Awareness of Health and Safety Issues
- Have a basic knowledge of computer skills
- Numeracy and literacy skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Team Player
- Hold a current UK driving licence

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of work carried out by Sterile Services
- Previous experience of working in a health care or related setting
- Awareness of Quality Management Systems
- Recent experience of trays and supplimentary instrumentation used in the wards, departments and theatres of LTH

### Qualifications & Education

**Essential**

- Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent
- Ability to Drive

## Documents

- [privacy notice (pdf, 305.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1761)
- [driver job description (pdf, 248.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10431258)
- [benefits of working at elht (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2405)
- [additional candidate information 2024 (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2494)

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