Laundry Assistant

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

The purpose of the job is to fully support the objectives of the West of Scotland Laundry (WoSL) to provide a cost effective and efficient, quality linen service to the WoSL Consortium (NHS Lanarkshire, Ayrshire & Arran, Dumfries & Galloway and State Hospital)

To ensure all required items are processed and delivered “on-time” and to the highest quality standards, whilst ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff is paramount throughout

Shift Patter for this role will be -

Nightshift/Backshift, Sunday 10.45pm – 7am, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 3.15pm – 8.35pm, Friday 2pm – 7.45pm

In this key role, you will:

• Start up and close down, safely and efficiently, all finishing equipment and conveyor belts used in the laundry facility (with the exception of the Continuous Batch Washer {CBW}) This includes completing standard daily safety checks.
• For all equipment usage and production processes it is imperative that staff are aware of required hourly production targets, work to achieve these, wherever possible and can record these on the required production sheets in the absence of immediate supervision; highlighting shortfall to supervisor.
• Review all risk assessments and work instructions, as required, ensuring work methods are fully safe and support the laundry to maintain production efficiencies in a cost effective manner
• Shadow train colleagues/new starts in line with work instructions ensuring they achieve production output in line with targets and with all health & safety aspects maintained
• Soil Sort: Empty carts of dirty linen onto conveyor system using cart tipper or manually as required. Classify linen into linen bins or cages depending on category i.e. sheets, towels etc. Assign loads to rails for washer. Select loads for washer using Futurail computer system.
• Post Soil Sort (CBW10): Post sort linen and allocate work to specific dryers using PC screen allocation process and vacuum system

What You'll Bring:

• Knowledge of laundry services and related procedures
• Required to undertake on the job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked ), to achieve full competency across a range of duties
• Working knowledge Health & Safety including participation in risk assessing individual tasks
• Required to undertake on the job training and induction e.g. infection control in the laundry
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

From 1 April 2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will reduce from 37 hours to 36 hours. Part-time working hours will be reduced on a pro-rata basis. A corresponding increase in the hourly rate will apply, ensuring that overall pay remains unchanged.

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Paul McCool , Deputy Head of Linen Services on paul.mccool@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Heather Lamont, Recruitment Administrator on heather.lamont@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk