Sustainability Assistant Apprentice

Job summary

The Asset Management Team within Estates and Facilities are the professional leads for the management of all property assets utilised by the Trust, ensuring they comply with statutory standards and are managed effectively and efficiently. We're recruiting a Sustainability Assistant Apprentice, to join our growing team!

Our Apprentice Sustainability Assistant will work within the Asset Management team dealing with daily waste disposal queries, requesting additional and ad hoc collections with waste contractors, providing additional information such as Safety Data Sheets.

You will be responsible for reviewing and analysing invoice back up, carry out waste audits and monitor waste volumes and costs and supporting theimplementation of new waste types and the promotion of waste segregation in line with waste hierarchy and carbon reduction target.

Main duties of the job

The role of Apprentice Sustainability Assistant (Waste) is to attend and participate in a series of virtual classroom sessions covering technical theory and functional skills.

Throughout the apprenticeship you will be required to build a portfolio of evidence to meet the module requirements.

The Trust will support your learning by providing a professional mentor who will allocate appropriate tasks which will enable you to gain practical experience in waste management skills.

Attend all external learning provided as part of the apprenticeship

Spend 20% of contracted hours on attending apprenticeship training and associated learning

Maintain a portfolio of evidence throughout your 2 year apprenticeship

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.