Bank Portering Staff (Band 2) - Porter - Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Isle of Wight NHS Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

L'Isle of Wight NHS Trust recrute un personnel de porterie temporaire pour fournir des services essentiels aux services hospitaliers. Le rôle nécessite un transfert sûr des patients, la collecte de spécimens et la livraison de médicaments. Le candidat doit avoir de bonnes compétences en communication et posséder un permis de conduire. Ce poste offre flexible des heures de travail, contribuant à un environnement de soins de santé de qualité.

Benefits

Onsite day nursery

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounts at local businesses and gyms

Opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde

Qualifications

• Capacité à démontrer des compétences de communication.
• Connaissance des tâches de porterie de base.
• Connaissance du site hospitalier.

Responsibilities

• Transférer les patients sur le site de l'hôpital comme indiqué.
• Livrer des médicaments entre les services.
• Collecter et livrer des déchets et du linge.

Skills

Basic Computer Skills

Education

Full current Driving Licence

Job description

Main area Porter Grade Band 2 Contract Temporary Staffing with Bank Hours Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working
• Other

0 hours per week (Shift pattern. Early, late, long days and nights.) Job ref 470-25-BANK-0002-AR

Employer Isle of Wight NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site St. Mary's Hospital Town Newport, Isle of Wight Salary £24,169 per hour Salary period Yearly Closing 13/07/2025 23:59

Band 2

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Bank Portering Staff who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

To provide Bank Portering services to the Hospital Wards and Departments

Main duties of the job

• Collection of specimens from wards/departments to a determined time, plus return of same if specimen not labelled correctly etc. as requested.
• Delivery of liquid nitrogen to wards and departments as requested.
• Checking, signing out and collection of units of blood and blood products from
• Blood Bank to wards using the personalised computerised bar code system.
• Using blood cool boxes as required, returning unused units to the blood fridge and recorded as requested if within designated time frames for blood to be out of fridge. Ensure matches are made with Patient name /Isle of Wight number and ensure that a signature is received from a senior member on nursing staff on receipt of blood at ward

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trusts beach hut in Ryde. We offer flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To transfer patients on hospital site as per instruction by, stretcher or be with the aid of motorised bed pushers. Also with the aid of roller board and patient slides etc.
• To transfer patients safely on hospital site using wheelchairs including pushing up and down the 1 in 20 slope
• To transfer patients by internal Ambulance, by wheelchair or falcon stretcher as requested. Ensuring that the wheelchairs or stretcher are correctly secured to the vehicle before transportation
• Check and replenish items used in patient movement vehicle as required.
• Give reassurance to elderly confused patients when carrying out transfers
• Movement of bodies from wards to the Mortuary including deceased babies from Maternity as requested and cleaning of equipment used.
• When the mortuary is closed to receive BID (Brought in Dead) from Police and Ambulance. Check identity against relevant paper work, log valuables, and place body in refrigerator following agreed procedure.
• To assist in the evacuation of wards due to fire etc

Notes and Equipment

• Collection and delivery of patient’s notes and X-rays, including large bags of clinic case notes.
• Collection of any medical devices from ward to ward, e.g. monitors, syringe drivers, infusion pumps, air mattresses etc.
• Collection and delivery of any fault or broken equipment from wards/departments to Estates maintenance department and delivery of repaired items back to destination.
• Inspecting Portering equipment trolleys, wheel chairs etc reporting faults to
• Supervisor to ensure the safe transfer of patients
• Out of hour’s collection of sterile equipment boxes to and from
• wards/departments.
• Safe collection of deceased patients property to bereavement office and movement of patient property and valuables on patient moves.

Pharmacy Duties

• Routine collection of Pharmacy boxes from wards/departments to Pharmac
• Delivery of medication from ward to ward as requested, obtaining signature of

Waste and Linen

• Collection of general waste bags on site and deliver to central collection point and dispose of using hydraulic compactor.
• Collection of dirty linen bags on site and deliver to central collection points.
• Delivery of clean linen to wards/departments out of normal working hours.
• To check and change Medical Gas Cylinders on Wards and Departments replacing washers as necessary, checking and change flow metres as required
• To change Medical Gas Manifolds as requested.

Emergency Situations

• Attend any fire calls, stand at designated positions to stop entry of visitors/patients/staff etc. for safety reasons.
• Attend panic alarms as required and advise control office as to findings.
• Attend emergency situations as requested by Senior Porter / Supervisor.
• On notification of major incident, to be able to respond as directed by Porter

Vehicle Check and Clean

• Keep vehicles clean and tidy.
• Visual checks for damage every day and report to Senior Porter on duty.
• Fill in vehicle log books on each journey and check pressure levels and fluid
• Re-fuel vehicles at off site garage as necessary.

The rota porters also have a basic knowledge of all departmental tasks for

The rota porter is expected to undertake requests for the departments when the dedicated porters are busy, or out of normal working hours when the dedicated Porter is off duty.

Person specification

Driving

• Full current Driving Licence

Skills

• Basic Computer Skills

Communication

Knowledge

• Can demonstrate the key competencies of the behavioural framework.
• Knowledge of hospital site
• Basic knowledge of Portering duties

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.