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Collections Driver

Employer
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
Location
West Midlands Region
Salary
Starting salary £17,000 pro rota + benefits
Closing date
4 Mar 2019

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Job Details

Midlands Air Ambulance is a charity that operates 3 Helicopter Emergency Medical Services, serving 6 counties. We strive to ensure that donor support is directed to our life saving operations, but we can only achieve that by having the right people within our organisation, and a focus on our income and spending.

Currently recruiting for a Collections Driver – 30 hours per week.

Job Summary:

To Plan and organise your individual routes for the distribution and collection of the charities static collection tins, donated goods / donations and to distribute.

Key Duties:

  • To plan and co-ordinate the emptying of our static collection tins across the regions
  • To assist with the collection of clothes and items from static donation stations/clothing banks and from donors
  • To attend manned collections points at motorway service areas, supermarkets, high streets and events
  • Working hand in hand within the Business Support Team to ensure accurate collation of data improves the efficiency of the collection tin strategy

To work alongside the communications team to support and raise MAAC’s brand to support and raise public awareness of the charity as and when required including:

  • Distributing new collection tins
  • Sourcing of new fundraising initiatives
  • Sharing of information through your line manager
  • Attending charity events

Person Specification

Essential

  • Clean full driving license
  • Computer literate - in house database and Microsoft
  • Experience in driving various size vehicles and vans
  • Route planning and ability to prioritise workload
  • Flexible to work some weekends and evenings
  • Experience in a customer focused environment

Desirable

  • Charity experience
  • Ability to Tow

Closing Date: 4th March 2019

 

*Strictly No Agencies Please*

 

Job Type: Part-time 30 hours

 

Company

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC) was formed in 1991 and provides a well-established, long serving, pre-hospital, helicopter-led emergency service across the six counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, the West Midlands and Worcestershire. We offer enhanced critical care provision,  bringing hospital-level procedures and medicines and specialist Doctor and Critical Care Paramedic skills to the patient at the scene.

We operate three aircraft from locations across our geography, along with a fleet of Rapid Response Vehicles and Critical Care Cars in support of our mission. MAAC currently funds its services entirely by fundraising – raising circa £15 million each year to meet that cost. However, MAAC’s five year strategy includes further income diversification.

In 2021 we celebrated our 30-year anniversary, and in April 2022 we became an independent healthcare provider with CQC registration and employing our own Doctors and Critical Care Paramedics.

We are a forward thinking, fast paced organisation comprising of many parts. We operate: By air and land as a healthcare provider specialising in pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM); Within the aviation sphere with our fleet of 3 helicopters that are supported by our fleet of critical care rapid response vehicles; As a registered charity – with our lifesaving service supported by a broad range of fundraising activities, business operations, volunteering and corporate partnerships; As a retail business with an expanding portfolio of shops across the region and online sales platforms via our trading subsidiary Midlands Air Ambulance Trading Limited (MAATL).

MAAC’s head office is currently in Stourbridge, West Midlands. MAAC’s head office will be moving in Spring 2023 to MAAC’s new purpose-built airbase and charity headquarters in Cosford on the Shropshire/ Staffordshire border.

Company info
Website
Telephone
07736923546
Location
Hawthorn House
Dudley Road
Stourbridge
West Midlands
DY98BQ
GB

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