General Porter

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Porter, providing vital services across multiple departments. This role requires excellent communication and teamwork skills to ensure patient and service efficiency. You will play a key part in the hospital environment, ensuring patient safety and comfort while working in a supportive and inclusive team.

Benefits

Access to high-quality training and development

Support for staff health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Ability to handle medical gases and specimens.
• Experience in a customer-focused role is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Transport patients, records, and equipment safely.
• Deal with general inquiries from staff and visitors.
• Perform general portering tasks as required.

Skills

Helpfulness

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

The post holder will be a member of the general Portering team and will provide a full Portering service to all wards and departments as instructed by the Portering Services Manager or duty Charge hand Porter. Core duties will involve the transportation of patients, records, equipment, removal of waste, specimens, and supplies, together with other tasks as detailed in this job description. The Porters can be asked to do any jobs by the manager included in Portering according to demands of the day.

• To distribute clean linen to all wards and departments in an emergency out-of-hours service.
• Collection and transportation of pathology specimens.
• Collection of medical gases from store, transport to ward and department, and assemble where necessary.
• Change medical gas cylinders in manifold rooms.
• Deal with all general inquiries from staff, patients, visitors, and members of the public in a helpful and courteous manner.
• Transport patients from and/or between wards and departments.
• Remove deceased patients to the mortuary and assist with viewings as directed.
• Undertake duties at departmental level as directed, e.g., A&E, X-Ray, OPD, Pharmacy, Utility Services, and Post Room.
• Carry out general portering tasks such as furniture removals.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas, across two hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity, and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high-performing Trust committed to staff health and wellbeing. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in the region, you will have access to high-quality training and development to support your career growth. The Trust is dedicated to delivering the best patient care using the latest clinical knowledge and technology.

We recruit based on qualifications, experience, and the behaviours that underpin our Trust's core values through values-based recruitment. We are committed to inclusivity, promoting equality and diversity, and valuing differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient applications are received. All new staff will undergo a 6-month probationary period. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all attached documents to familiarize yourself with all job requirements.

For further details or informal visits, contact:

Name: Laxman Goorah
Job title: Support Services Manager
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone] ext 6071