Hospital Porter / Car Park

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital is seeking a General Hospital Porter to support patient care and maintain a safe, clean environment. You'll assist with patient transfers, manage waste streams and security, and help with car park access.

This full-time, permanent role requires good communication, physical fitness for lifting and moving equipment, and the ability to work as part of a Facilities Team. DBS checks apply, and benefits include gym membership, health assessments and pension options.

Qualifications

• Must be able to perform physical tasks and assist with patient transfers.
• Ability to push beds and lift equipment safely.
• Good communication with patients, visitors and staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage waste streams (clinical, domestic, recycling, special).
• Carry out security checks (opening/closing, ad hoc).
• Control access to the car park.
• Manage patient transfers between departments.
• Handle internal and external post, including recording usage by third parties.
• Maintain external environment and car park to a high standard.
• Support Porter Team Leader and Facilities Team to meet service levels.

Skills

People skills

Physical stamina

Communication

DBS checks

Job description

Hospital Porter Leeds Hospital | Facilities | Permanent Contract | Full time | £25,038 per annum 37.5 hours per week

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 General Hospital Porter at our Nuffield Health Leeds 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 General Hospital Porter, you will:

• Manage waste streams (clinical, domestic, recycling, special)
• Carry out security checks (early morning opening, evening lockdown, and ad hoc)
• Control access to the car park
• Manage patient transfers between departments
• Manage both internal and external post (including recording of postal use by on-site third parties)
• Maintain the external environment to a high standard (including the car park)
• To support the Porter Team Leader and Facilities Team to ensure that the third party facilities providers are delivering to the agreed levels of service
• Helping you feel good.

• Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you. Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital. At Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital located in the heart of Leeds city centre, we are committed to continuing our vision of providing the highest level of care to all our patients. Our successful, purpose-built hospital deals with complex surgery supported by a Level3 critical care unit covering a vast range of specialties such as: brain surgery, cardiac surgery, general surgery, orthopaedics and spinal surgery. In addition we offer a comprehensive diagnostic service including cardiology tests and interventions, diagnostic imaging – MR, CT, Mammography, Plain film and Ultrasound, fully equipped Physiotherapy department with gymnasium facilities.

If patient care and team spirit is your passion, then come along and visit us to see how you can develop and enhance your career with us Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

It starts with you.

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.