General Porter | Northumbria Healthcare - NHFM (Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management)

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health organization in the UK is seeking Porters to provide essential services, including patient conveyance and equipment delivery, while ensuring compliance with safety standards and confidentiality. The ideal candidates will exhibit flexibility and commitment to high-quality service delivery in various hospital settings. Applications are open until October 21, 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in patient handling and support services.
• Ability to follow safety and confidentiality policies.
• Flexibility to undertake assigned duties as porter.

Responsibilities

• Convey patients by wheelchair or bed.
• Collect and deliver equipment and linen.
• Maintain cleanliness of external hospital areas.
• Provide porter service to wards where needed.

Job description

Overview

The Portering departments at NHFM, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, provide a variety of services to patients and departments, including maintaining a safe environment for patients and staff, the provision of a high quality, efficient customer orientated Portering service and compliance with the Trust Patient Confidentiality Policy. NHFM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Established in 2012, NHFM provide specialist project management services for large and small capital developments, estates maintenance and a full range of facilities services. Carrying out facilities management for a state‑of‑the‑art specialist emergency care hospital – The Northumbria, three general hospitals – North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham hospitals – and a number of smaller community hospitals and clinic sites, we cover one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.

Responsibilities

• Conveyance and movement of patients by wheelchair, trolley, bed, stretcher, etc.
• Collection and delivery of linen, refuse, clinical waste trolleys, food trolleys, stores, beds, bedding, furniture, equipment and records to designated area.
• Sorting of incoming mail and franking of external mail as required.
• Driving if required.
• Reception and movement of medical gas cylinders within Health and Safety guidelines.
• Removal of refuse from waste bins located outside the hospital entrance on a daily basis.
• Daily cleaning of external areas situated at hospital entrances.
• Conveyance of deceased patients to the Mortuary.
• Undertake the role of porter or security guard during shift.
• Subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
• Provide a comprehensive Porter service to all Wards and Departments on site, be flexible in approach to work and undertake other duties that are assigned under the role.
• Compliance with the Trust Patient Confidentiality Policy.

Application

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This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Oct 2025