Hospital Porter (Bank)

Nuffield Health; England; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement per WTD

Pension scheme

Discounted gym membership £35/month

Job summary

Nuffield Health is seeking a Porter for Wessex Hospital on a bank, part-time basis. The role involves assisting patients to and from their rooms around surgery times, helping maintain the theatre environment, and supporting the clinical teams in a fast-paced setting.

Applicants should be comfortable with physical tasks, able to pass DBS checks, and ready to work in a hospital setting. A friendly, reassuring manner is essential for patients and colleagues alike.

Qualifications

• DBS clearance required.
• Able to lift and push heavy equipment.
• Willingness to work in a hospital environment.

Responsibilities

• Collect and return patients to rooms before and after surgery.
• Maintain functioning theatre equipment and environment.
• Assist with cleaning of theatre area and gear.
• Work in a fast-paced clinical setting.
• Coordinate with theatre team to ensure smooth operations.
• Provide friendly, reassuring communication to patients.

Skills

People skills

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

Porter Wessex Hospital | Property and Facilities | Bank | Part time | £13.10 per hour

Are you good with people? Do you feel comfortable with physical work, like pushing beds and lifting heavy equipment? If so, this is a fantastic opportunity to join the UK's largest Healthcare Charity, where you can enjoy a highly rewarding role. We're taking care of the nation's health and it starts with you. As a Porter at our hospital, you'll need to be a good communicator, as this role involves helping our patients to feel relaxed and reassured, before and after surgery. It's also essential that you're happy to undergo our Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, as part of your application.

As a Hospital Porter, you will:

• Be part of a close-knit professional team
• Collect and return patients to their individual rooms, before and after surgery
• Work with your colleagues to ensure that the theatre environment and its equipment are fully functioning
• Help with the cleaning of the theatre environment and equipment
• Work in a fast-moving clinical environment
• Maintain constant and effective interaction with our theatre team
• Helping you feel good

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.

Benefits

• Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive
• Access to our Pension Scheme
• Discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month

Wessex Hospital Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital is a stunning 46 bedded private hospital in West Hampshire with specialisms in Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Women's Health and Spinal surgery. The hospital also benefits from having onsite Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Hydrotherapy so we can give our patients a complete package of care.

There are 16 consulting rooms with speciality outpatient rooms, 46 private patient bedrooms with en-suite facilities, 24 hr resident doctor on site (RMO) and four operating theatres and one endoscopy suite.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. Nuffield Health, is the UK's largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we've been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.