Band 2 Hospital Porter - GHH Portering

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Hospital Porter to support clinical and non-clinical teams across the trust. You will assist with moving patients, equipment, and supplies, ensuring safety and dignity during transport.

The role includes flexible shifts, a Band 2 salary, and working across hospital sites. Applicants should be ready to work as part of a team, handle public interactions, and comply with Trust policies.

Qualifications

• Basic level of education in literacy and numeracy.
• Able to work as a team member.
• Dealing with the public and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Work in a safe, courteous and confidential manner following Trust policies and procedures.
• Assist patients into wheelchairs and onto beds, ensuring their comfort during transport.
• Move patients and equipment around the hospital site using wheelchairs, beds or trolleys.
• Deliver drugs and IV fluids to wards in accordance with policy; report any equipment faults.
• Respond to tasks from supervisors or helpdesk and maintain safety and cleanliness.

Skills

Teamwork

Dealing with the public

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Basic literacy & numeracy (E)

Job description

Job Summary

Hospital porters provide a varied and supportive role to clinical and non-clinical teams. This includes the movement of patients on beds, trolleys and wheelchairs. It also involves the movement of equipment, medication, medical gases, post, patient notes, patient meals, consumables, waste, samples and test results from one place to another; enabling care and services to continue.

Job Summary

Hospital porters provide a varied and supportive role to clinical and non-clinical teams. This includes the movement of patients on beds, trolleys and wheelchairs. It also involves the movement of equipment, medication, medical gases, post, patient notes, patient meals, consumables, waste, samples and test results from one place to another; enabling care and services to continue.

x5 vacancies- x3 7am-7pm four on four off days to nights X1 9am-5pm Mon-Fri X1 22.5 3 mid-week days

Zero hour bank contract to be considered.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

• Work in a safe, courteous and confidential manner whilst following Trust Policy and associated Standard Operating Procedures relating to the task being carried out.
• Be in designated place of work from agreed shift start time to agreed shift end time. To maintain a level of portering service throughout the Trust and or your designated work area by following a planned schedule of work as well as making flexible alterations when required
• Assist patients into wheelchairs and onto beds; ensuring their comfort in readiness for transport to a designated area.
• Move patients by wheelchair or bed or stretcher around the hospital site from various wards and departments and can involve some distance including, where directed, using the internal ambulance.
• Ensure patient safety during transport by keeping regularly used equipment such as wheelchairs and trolleys clean; reporting improperly working equipment to supervisor for repair and storing in readily accessible area.
• Deliver all drugs, including controlled drugs as well as IV fluids to wards and departments in accordance with policy and procedures set by clinical governance.
• Deliver, collect and change all medical gases to wards and departments as well as changing gas manifolds (Full training will be provided).
• Respond to tasks allocated by the Supervisor or Helpdesk Controller either verbally or via communication device and / or telephone pager.

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Basic level of education in literacy and numeracy (E)

Experience

Essential

• Able to work as a team member (E)
• Dealing with the public and ability to work under pressure (E)

Desirable

• Organisational skills, sorting post (D)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£25272.00 to £25272.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-9018351

Job locations

Good Hope Hospital

Rectory Rd

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

B75 7RR

Attachments

Job Description

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