Healthcare Porter

Harrogate Integrated Facilities; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare services provider in Harrogate is seeking a Healthcare Porter to ensure safe movement of patients and equipment throughout the hospital. This role requires good people skills, the ability to lift heavy items, and flexibility in working hours, including shifts. The ideal candidate will have NHS experience and a compassionate personality to support patients in a hospital environment. Compensation is £24,465 per year, pro rata plus enhancements.

Qualifications

• Must have good people skills and be able to work a number of shifts.
• Former NHS experience is preferred.
• Must be able to move heavy items easily.

Responsibilities

• Ensure service users, materials, and equipment are safely transferred around the hospital.
• Work effectively in a team to meet hospital needs.
• Respond to requests for assistance during emergency incidents.

Skills

Good people skills

Ability to move heavy items

Compassionate and friendly personality

Flexible and supportive

Strong customer focus

Confident and adaptable

Education

Good Secondary Education

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Porter at Harrogate District Hospital.

We at Harrogate Integrated Facilities (HIF) are inviting applications for a Healthcare Porters role. Duties include patient movement, collection and delivery of specimens and instruments to ward and clinical areas, waste collection and to respond to requests to support/provide assistance for onsite emergency incidents.

Main duties of the job

What would a working day look like?

You're working early shifts this week and you've been tasked with moving medical equipment from the third floor of the Abbey Wing to the Day Surgery Unit on the ground floor. The equipment is very valuable and delicate, so you use your skills and expertise to move it.

Then you're off to Fountains Ward to take a patient to the x-ray department. You wait until the x-ray is taken and then bring them back to their ward.

The rest of your shift is spent moving patients around the hospital and delivering stocks of emergency drugs to the right wards.

You are an essential part of the hospital team, working with so many different patients and members of staff.

What skills do you need for this role?

The postholder must be able to move heavy items easily and push them considerable distances. They must have good people skills and be able to work a number of shifts to meet the service's needs.

Does this sound like you?

If so, and you'd like to work in a hospital environment and be an essential part of a healthcare team, this could be the role for you!

About us

Harrogate Integrated Facilities (HIF) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Harrogate and District Foundation Trust (HDFT). HIF supplies services to the hospital and community services with respect to Maintenance, Sterile Services, Portering, Catering, Equipment Library, Linen and Sewing Room, Security, Car Parking, General Office, Front Desk, Reception, Waste Management, Courier Services, Security Services and Domestics.

Our mission is to be an exceptional provider of integrated facilities for the benefit of our communities, our staff and our partners.

Please note:

Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications

Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.

Please also be aware that the company does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.

Job responsibilities

You will ensure that service users, materials and equipment are safely and appropriately transferred around the hospital to the standard required whilst delivering an effective and efficient service that meets contractual obligation, KPIs and in accordance with agreed Company and Trust policies and procedures.

The Portering Service provides 24 hours per day, including night shifts.

For more information please see the Job Description and Personal Specification attached

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good Secondary Education

Knowledge

• Former NHS experience

Skills

• Compassionate and friendly personality.
• Confident and adaptable with a strong customer focus.
• Flexible and supportive

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.

£24,465 a yearper annum pro rata + enhancements