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Site Car Park Attendant

  • Job
    Full-time
    Entry Level
  • Healthcare
    Facilities Management
  • Manchester

AI generated summary

  • You must provide courteous service, assist patients, maintain cleanliness, monitor car park usage, ensure compliance, and wear uniform/PPE. Training and teamwork are essential.
  • You will assist patients and visitors, maintain car parks, ensure cleanliness, manage wheelchair availability, monitor usage, report issues, and support security and parking initiatives.

Requirements

  • Provide a professional, courteous, efficient, and polite service to patients, visitors, staff, and contractors.
  • To provide patients and patient visitors with any assistance where necessary as the first point of contact including providing directions and taking patients to departments wards as required.
  • To assist patients with use of wheelchairs where necessary, taking patients to main site if required.
  • Maintain the car parks in a clean, safe, and tidy state, clearing leaves, gritting in adverse weather, and emptying bins as required.
  • To ensure that all the patient, patient visitor entrances to the hospital are clean and tidy.
  • Remove waste from bins as required daily and participate in litter picking as required.
  • To ensure that there are adequate numbers of wheelchairs available at the three main trust patient entrances (Oak Rd, Palatine Rd and OPD receptions).
  • To ensure that all external use wheelchairs are cleaned daily.
  • Monitor car park usage and escalate car park issues as required.
  • To ensure that staff do not park on patient / visitor car parks.
  • To ensure that patients / visitors do not park on the staff car park.
  • To report any faults or problems with the car park or the car park equipment following first line maintenance fault finding.
  • To carry out basic first line maintenance on all car parking equipment, including replenishment of car park ticket machines.
  • To reserve parking spaces when required.
  • To ensure that contractors do not park on site.
  • Assist with the implementation of any car parking initiatives.
  • To assist security with the collection of cash from the car park machines.
  • Carry out car park, cycle rack usage surveys as required.
  • Ensure that uniform and PPE issued by the trust is worn in a smart manner at all times.
  • Carry out all tasks according to risk assessments.
  • To operate across all trust car park sites as per weekly rota.
  • To ensure that patients / visitors do not smoke on trust estate and to challenge smokers who are smoking on site.
  • To ensure that any training that is required is attended.
  • To take part in trust PDR process.
  • Use of handheld devices such as radios body worn video.
  • Carry out any other duties as designated as reasonable by the Car Park Team Leader, Security Supervisor, Deputy Operational Services Manager, Operational Services Manager or Technical Manager for Soft facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Provide a professional, courteous, efficient, and polite service to patients, visitors, staff, and contractors.
  • To provide patients and patient visitors with any assistance where necessary as the first point of contact including providing directions and taking patients to departments wards as required.
  • To assist patients with use of wheelchairs where necessary, taking patients to main site if required.
  • Maintain the car parks in a clean, safe, and tidy state, clearing leaves, gritting in adverse weather, and emptying bins as required.
  • To ensure that all the patient, patient visitor entrances to the hospital are clean and tidy.
  • Remove waste from bins as required daily and participate in litter picking as required.
  • To ensure that there are adequate numbers of wheelchairs available at the three main trust patient entrances (Oak Rd, Palatine Rd and OPD receptions).
  • To ensure that all external use wheelchairs are cleaned daily.
  • Monitor car park usage and escalate car park issues as required.
  • To ensure that staff do not park on patient / visitor car parks.
  • To ensure that patients / visitors do not park on the staff car park.
  • To report any faults or problems with the car park or the car park equipment following first line maintenance fault finding.
  • To carry out basic first line maintenance on all car parking equipment, including replenishment of car park ticket machines.
  • To reserve parking spaces when required.
  • To ensure that contractors do not park on site.
  • Assist with the implementation of any car parking initiatives.
  • To assist security with the collection of cash from the car park machines.
  • Carry out car park, cycle rack usage surveys as required.
  • Ensure that uniform and PPE issued by the trust is worn in a smart manner at all times.
  • Carry out all tasks according to risk assessments.
  • To operate across all trust car park sites as per weekly rota.
  • To ensure that patients / visitors do not smoke on trust estate and to challenge smokers who are smoking on site.
  • To ensure that any training that is required is attended.
  • To take part in trust PDR process.
  • Use of handheld devices such as radios body worn video.
  • Carry out any other duties as designated as reasonable by the Car Park Team Leader, Security Supervisor, Deputy Operational Services Manager, Operational Services Manager or Technical Manager for Soft facilities.

FAQs

What are the primary responsibilities of a Site Car Park Attendant?

The primary responsibilities include providing courteous service to patients and visitors, assisting with directions and wheelchair use, maintaining cleanliness in the car parks, monitoring usage, ensuring compliance with parking regulations, and reporting any equipment faults.

Is assistance provided to patients in wheelchairs?

Yes, the Site Car Park Attendant is responsible for assisting patients with the use of wheelchairs and transporting them to the main site if necessary.

What cleaning responsibilities does the role include?

The role includes maintaining the car parks in a clean, safe, and tidy condition, clearing leaves, gritting as needed, emptying bins, and ensuring patient entrances are clean and tidy.

Are Site Car Park Attendants required to handle car park cash collections?

Yes, they are required to assist security with the collection of cash from the car park machines.

Is a uniform or specific attire required for this job?

Yes, employees are required to wear the uniform and PPE issued by the trust in a smart manner at all times.

How does the Site Car Park Attendant manage parking for staff and visitors?

The Site Car Park Attendant ensures that staff do not park in patient/visitor areas and that patients/visitors do not use the staff car park.

What should be done if a car park issue arises?

The Site Car Park Attendant should monitor car park usage and escalate any issues as required, along with reporting any faults with the car park equipment.

Are there any training requirements for this position?

Yes, it is required for the Site Car Park Attendant to attend any necessary training sessions.

Will the Site Car Park Attendant need to work across multiple sites?

Yes, the role requires the attendant to operate across all trust car park sites as per a weekly rota.

What actions should be taken if someone is smoking on trust property?

The Site Car Park Attendant is responsible for ensuring that patients and visitors do not smoke on the trust estate and should challenge anyone smoking on site.

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Mission & Purpose

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK, employing over 20,000 staff. We are responsible for running a family of nine hospitals across six separate sites, providing a wide range of services from comprehensive local general hospital care through to highly specialised regional and national services. We are the main provider of hospital care to approximately 750,000 people in Manchester and Trafford and the single biggest provider of specialised services in the North West of England. We are also the lead provider for a significant number of specialised services including Breast Care, Vascular, Cardiac, Respiratory, Urology Cancer, Paediatrics, Women’s Services, Ophthalmology and Genomic Medicine.