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Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG24 8PL
Full Time: 40 hours per week
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 6.00am - 2.30pm, with occasional work on Saturdays and Bank Holidays
Salary: £26,509.50 per annum + excellent benefits
Keep your streets clean and your community proud.
Join our Hart Basingstoke and Deane team as a Refuse and Recycling Loader and play a vital role in keeping your community clean, safe, and sustainable.
Working alongside a professional and friendly team, you’ll deliver a full waste and recycling service to local residents and businesses. Your efforts will help maintain high standards across the community while providing excellent customer service every step of the way.
You’ll be entrusted to:
- Complete a pre-planned route with the driver and loaders in your team, collecting waste and recycling from residential homes and commercial properties.
- Be the public face of Serco in the community.
- Contribute to keeping the area beautiful, safe, and a clean place to live and work - a responsibility we take great pride in!
You’ll be a great fit for this role if...
- You’re physically fit and healthy (this is a must, due to the nature of the work!)
- You’re a dedicated, friendly, and professional team player – punctuality is very important too
- You are willing to go the extra mile on your rounds to help your team hit its targets
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What’s in it for you?
Our benefits are designed to put you first. Alongside meaningful and active work in your community, you’ll get:
- Holidays: 20 days, plus bank holidays (or time off in lieu)
- Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Training and development: A wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
- Health and wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, Simplyhealth cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
- Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment, and travel.
- Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network, and be part of a community.
- Charity: Support a charity or organisation with a paid volunteering day each year. You can also choose to donate to your favourite charity tax-free, through our Payroll Giving Scheme.
Impact a better future — change starts on your doorstep. Apply today.
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A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure, and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation, and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.
Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, the Top Great British Employer of Veterans 2026, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans, and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).
For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.
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