Deputy Head of Transport

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services BSPS are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable, and highly flexible individual to fill a part time job share as Deputy Head of Transport based at our Cody Depot at Farnborough.

Keyboard and driving skills are both vital elements of the job
1. To support the Head of Transport in running the BSPS transport service. To include playing a full role in the strategic corporate leadership of the BSPS transport service. To cover the duties of the Head of Transport in their absence.
2. Day to day leadership of the BSPS Transport team.
3. To be responsible for setting standards of work within the pathology transport service and ensuring these are promulgated and adhered to.
4. Responsible for the recruitment and training of staff across a complex multi-site, multi-Trust business.
5. Excellent communication skills to enable the job holder to deal with complex communication issues across a wide range of work areas, dealing with staff at all levels as well as demanding customer interactions.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.