Patient Movement Porter

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Dewsbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a dedicated Patient Movement Porter to join their Portering Team at Dewsbury and District Hospital Hub. The role involves transferring patients, assisting with essential equipment, and ensuring patient dignity and care. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, reliable, and a team player with a commitment to excellent patient service. This full-time position offers a range of benefits, including NHS pension plan and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Access to NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health and wellbeing services

Flexible working options

Career progression, training and support

Qualifications

• Ability to safely and efficiently transfer patients throughout the hospital.
• Strong communication skills to ensure respectful handling of patients.
• Commitment to maintaining the dignity and care of every patient.

Responsibilities

• Safely transfer patients throughout the hospital.
• Assist with collection and delivery of specimens and equipment.
• Support departments by providing quality portering services.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Reliability

Team player

Strong work ethic

Commitment to patient service

Job description

If you have any queries, please contact;

Amanda Foster - [e-mail]

About The Role

• This role is not on the Home Office list of occupations eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
• PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY AND WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

Are you enthusiastic, reliable, and passionate about helping others? We’re looking for dedicated and hardworking individuals to join our Portering Team as a Patient Movement Porter at Dewsbury and District Hospital Hub.

In this front-of-house role, you’ll play a vital part in supporting patient care by:

• Safely and efficiently transferring patients throughout the hospital
• Assisting with the timely collection and delivery of specimens and essential equipment
• Ensuring every patient’s experience is handled with dignity, care, and respect

You’ll be part of a dynamic team at the heart of hospital operations, making a real difference every day.

If you’re a team player with a strong work ethic and a commitment to excellent patient service, we’d love to hear from you!

We have 1 full time position working 37.5 hours per week as follows -

5 over 7 within a 24 hour period

• Please note this advert may be closed earlier than the advertised closing date *

Main duties

The post holder will work as part of the Operational Portering Team to provide patient movement and patient facing services and to assist in the movement of both clinical and household waste for the Trust.

Under the direction of the supervisor, the post holder will deliver an efficient, effective and quality front of house portering service that is supportive towards departments and other buildings. The post holder will be courteous and caring towards patients and all service users.

Key Requirements

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

Skilled worker sponsorship

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