Porter

Dsfs Ltd; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. is recruiting a full-time Porter for the Chesterfield Royal Hospital site. The role involves a 37.5-hour week with a shift pattern covering 16 hours daily, seven days a week including weekends.

Responsibilities include patient escorting, transportation, waste management, and logistics within the hospital. Applicants should have GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent), plus the ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent are required.
• Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills essential.
• Experience in a hospital environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Escort patients and visitors throughout the hospital.
• Transport patients using appropriate methods.
• Assist with transfers to appointments and mortuary procedures.
• Clean and manage domestic waste equipment and storage areas.
• Collect bagged soiled linen.
• Deliver and collect stores, medical gases, laundry, and notes.
• Coordinate collection and delivery of blood products from Pathology.

Skills

GCSE Maths

GCSE English

Interpersonal skills

Driving licence (UK)

Teamwork

Education

GCSE Maths and English or equivalent

Tools

Full UK driving licence

Job description

Our people are our greatest strength and through our people we strive to make continuous improvements.

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DSFS Ltd are looking to recruit the right candidate into the role of a full time Porter on a 37.5 hour per week contract, to work within the portering department main hospital based at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

The duties include conducting a wide variety of portering tasks, you will be expected to work a shift pattern covering 16 hours a day / 7 days a week including weekends.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Main duties of the job

• The escorting of patients and visitors.
• The transportation of patients by appropriate means to other areas of the hospital.
• Duties in connection with the transference of patients from the ward to appointments the transferring of deceased persons, i.e. transfers to the mortuary.
• Cleaning of domestic waste equipment and storage areas.
• Collection of bagged soiled linen.
• The collection and / or distribution of miscellaneous items, i.e. stores, medical gases, laundry, medical notes.
• The collection and delivery of blood products from Pathology.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent

Experience

• Ability to work unsupervised Adaptable to meet service needs Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work as a team
• Worked within a hospital environment

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to multi task
• Computer and keyboard skills
• Full UK driving licence for operating the waste collection vehicle*

Personal Attributes

• Physically capable of handling wheeled waste containers and furniture waste. For disabled applicants’ alternative arrangements can be made if required.
• Adaptable to meet service needs

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / [e-mail] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

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