Healthcare Porter

NHS; Shaftesbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Healthcare Porter, where you'll support the delivery of essential services in a prison setting. You'll be responsible for maintaining cleanliness and assisting healthcare professionals, ensuring a safe and hygienic environment for patients. This role requires strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to patient care, making a real difference in the lives of individuals in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a housekeeper, cleaner or porter.
• Experience in a healthcare setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide a housekeeping service within the prison healthcare areas.
• Maintain healthcare areas and replenish consumables.
• Support the clinical team when required.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Healthcare Porter to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As a healthcare porter you will provide a high standard of domestic and general household duties within the prison for patients with healthcare needs. You will be required to move around the prison each day improving enablement to healthcare appointments.

Your duties will keeping all areas of healthcare clean and maintained (ie clinic rooms, tables, trolleys etc), effective stock control for equipment and replenishing consumables, and support the clinical team when required. You will be responsible for ensuring emergency equipment and bags are replenished, managing equipment and delivering movement slips to the prison population

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

• To provide a housekeeping service within the prison healthcare areas.
• Clinic rooms wiped down, tables, trolleys, work surfaces.
• Keep healthcare areas maintained.
• To supply and replenish consumables i.e. Paper towels, toilet rolls, soap etc.
• To follow standard operational procedures ie, health, hygiene, securing and locking doors.
• IPC
• Maintain appropriate stock levels for essential and non essential equipment.
• Moving and handling of equipment
• checking emergency equipment and bags
• Checking fridge temperature
• Appropriate management of equipment
• Support the clinical team when required
• Deliver movement slips to prison population
• Support health promotion initiatives
• Organise work plan prioritising own workload to ensure all daily duties are carried out
• Answering telephone
• Assist patients when appropriate in relation to housekeeping services
• Undertake surveys/audits necessary to own work

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous experience as a housekeeper, cleaner or porter
• Experience in a healthcare setting

Skills

• Good interpersonal skills

Supporting Statement

• Good supporting statement showcasing interest in role

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.