{"id":74754,"date":"2020-04-14T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=74754"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:27:28","slug":"support-government-response-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-government-response-covid\/74754\/","title":{"rendered":"Interserve recruits 1,500 new employees to support COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interserve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interserve<\/a> has recruited around 1,500 new employees to undertake vital roles to support to the UK\u2019s public services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/h2>\n<p>The new vital roles will add to the efforts the company is already making via its internal redeployment team, giving colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-furloughed-workers\/74685\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who are furloughed<\/a> the opportunity to transfer to active contracts where training and geography allow.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonambulance.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Ambulance Service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotblood.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The company plans to recruit a mixture of temporary and permanent positions.<\/p>\n<h3>Roles include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>800 people in Interserve\u2019s communities business unit to support its NHS contracts in London, Birmingham and the South East delivering FM services including cleaning, maintenance and portering.<\/li>\n<li>200 people in Interserve\u2019s communities business unit to support our FM services at the North West <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/nhs-nightingale-hospital\/74701\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nightingale Hospital<\/a> in Manchester.<\/li>\n<li>500 people to support Interserve healthcare, which delivers high-quality complex care services to adults and children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Vital roles across the UK<\/h3>\n<p>Lynn Mawdsley, Interserve\u2019s managing director support services, said: \u201cOur cleaners, porters, security, catering staff and maintenance colleagues play a crucial role in supporting and maintaining hospitals and critical infrastructure across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interserve Healthcare is supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-sites-lockdown\/73725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Government\u2019s response to COVID-19<\/a> by providing critical care to people in their homes, thereby freeing up hospital space for people admitted due to coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am immensely proud of all of our teams who are working in such challenging circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interserve has recruited around 1,500 new employees to undertake vital roles to support to the UK\u2019s public services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[676,54592,882,742,996,592,13889],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-employment","10":"tag-facilities-management","11":"tag-nhs","12":"tag-skills","13":"tag-tilbury-douglas"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interserve recruits 1,500 new employees to support COVID-19<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interserve expanding support to the UK\u2019s public services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, recruiting around 1,500 to undertake vital roles\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-government-response-covid\/74754\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interserve recruit 1,500 new employees to support response to COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interserve has recruited around 1,500 new employees to undertake vital roles to support to the UK\u2019s public services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-government-response-covid\/74754\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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