Interserve has recruited around 1,500 new employees to undertake vital roles to support to the UK’s public services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
The new vital roles will add to the efforts the company is already making via its internal redeployment team, giving colleagues who are furloughed the opportunity to transfer to active contracts where training and geography allow.
Interserve carries out a wide range of vital roles to assist the NHS and other crucial services. The company has facilities management (FM) and total FM contracts at 16 NHS Trusts, six healthcare facilities and the London Ambulance Service and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service.
The services the company delivers range from security through to cleaning, catering as well as maintenance and portering duties. Interserve Healthcare delivers care, parenteral nutrition and administers intravenous medicine to patients in their homes across the UK.
The company plans to recruit a mixture of temporary and permanent positions.
Roles include:
- 800 people in Interserve’s communities business unit to support its NHS contracts in London, Birmingham and the South East delivering FM services including cleaning, maintenance and portering.
- 200 people in Interserve’s communities business unit to support our FM services at the North West Nightingale Hospital in Manchester.
- 500 people to support Interserve healthcare, which delivers high-quality complex care services to adults and children.
Vital roles across the UK
Lynn Mawdsley, Interserve’s managing director support services, said: “Our cleaners, porters, security, catering staff and maintenance colleagues play a crucial role in supporting and maintaining hospitals and critical infrastructure across the UK.
“Making sure that hospitals remain clean and provides the best possible environment for NHS staff and patients is always of paramount importance, but now more than ever quite simply the services our teams deliver are helping to save lives.
“Interserve Healthcare is supporting the UK Government’s response to COVID-19 by providing critical care to people in their homes, thereby freeing up hospital space for people admitted due to coronavirus.
“I am immensely proud of all of our teams who are working in such challenging circumstances.”
