Porter

Nhs View All Jobs; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care Services NHS Foundation Trust seeks a friendly, conscientious porter to join our Facilities Team. You will provide portering services across our community hospital, ensuring dignity and safety during transport of equipment, goods and post.

The role supports 5-shift patterns across the week in non-patient and patient areas. A flexible approach and good communication skills are essential; prior experience in a similar role is desirable.

Qualifications

• Experience in a portering or facilities role is preferred.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety practices is essential.
• Good communication skills and ability to follow instructions.

Responsibilities

• Provide portering services across the hospital and community sites.
• Move, receive and deliver goods, post and equipment as required.
• Assist with waste management and curtain-change tasks.
• Report faults and follow safety and Estates procedures.

Skills

Ability to prioritise

Knowledge of Health & Safety

Ability to communicate effectively

Job description

Patient movement to appointments ensuring their dignity and safety ismaintainedat all times. Check,monitorgaspressures and contentsand record, order medical gases according to correct Trust procedures, report any defects to Facilities Supervisor. Undertake driving duties, stores deliveries and equipment removals Receive\" goods in\" and make deliveries - coordinate all deliveries to ensure the best use of resources Responsiblefor waste management on site,collectionand storage of waste from locations. Timely transportation of post,parcelsand medical records to agreed points Assistwith theremovalofcurtains as part of the curtain change programme. Regularly transport bagged dirty linen from all areas to theappropriate collectionarea Complete property inspections, checking for damage, rectify basic faultse.g.replace ceiling tiles, unblocking toilets.report results using theEstatesFaultReporting portal, Conduct basic PPM, tasks such as emergency lighting, fire alarm testing, fire doorchecksand PAT testing for patient property Clean equipment, for example wheelchairs, trolleys - this is not an exhaustive list The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification., Patient movement to appointments ensuring their dignity and safety ismaintainedat all times. Check,monitorgaspressures and contentsand record, order medical gases according to correct Trust procedures, report any defects to Facilities Supervisor. Undertake driving duties, stores deliveries and equipment removals Receive goods in and make deliveries - coordinate all deliveries to ensure the best use of resources Responsiblefor waste management on site,collectionand storage of waste from locations. Timely transportation of post,parcelsand medical records to agreed points Assistwith theremovalofcurtains as part of the curtain change programme. Regularly transport bagged dirty linen from all areas to theappropriate collectionarea Complete property inspections, checking for damage, rectify basic faultse.g.replace ceiling tiles, unblocking toilets.report results using theEstatesFaultReporting portal, Conduct basic PPM, tasks such as emergency lighting, fire alarm testing, fire doorchecksand PAT testing for patient property Clean equipment, for example wheelchairs, trolleys this is not an exhaustive list This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas Job description, Patient movement to appointments ensuring their dignity and safety ismaintainedat all times. Check,monitorgaspressures and contentsand record, order medical gases according to correct Trust procedures, report any defects to Facilities Supervisor. Undertake driving duties, stores deliveries and equipment removals Receive goods in and make deliveries - coordinate all deliveries to ensure the best use of resources Responsiblefor waste management on site,collectionand storage of waste from locations. Timely transportation of post,parcelsand medical records to agreed points Assistwith theremovalofcurtains as part of the curtain change programme. Regularly transport bagged dirty linen from all areas to theappropriate collectionarea Complete property inspections, checking for damage, rectify basic faultse.g.replace ceiling tiles, unblocking toilets.report results using theEstatesFaultReporting portal, Conduct basic PPM, tasks such as emergency lighting, fire alarm testing, fire doorchecksand PAT testing for patient property Clean equipment, for example wheelchairs, trolleys this is not an exhaustive list This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

GloucestershireHealth andCare Services NHSFoundationTrust are looking for a friendly,conscientiousand motivated individual to joinourFacilities Team. The purpose of the role is to provideporteringservices withinour Community Hospital. The service we provideoperatesshifts across5days of the week. The successful candidate will be working throughout the hospital in non-patient and inpatient areas. We are looking for a person who can work as part of the team tomaintainthehigh standards. This patient facing role requires candidates tohavegood communicationskills. The successful candidate will requirethe ability to follow instructions and proceduresvia written, verbal and IT methods of communication and preferably havepreviousexperience in a similar role or environment. A flexible approach towards the work will berequiredto meet the changing priorities of the workload,dutiesand department., Experience Essential

Experience Essential

• Ability to prioritise
• Knowledge of Health & Safety

Desirable

• Knowledge caretaker role
• Understanding of handyman tasks

Personal Skills Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively

Person Specification Experience Essential

• Ability to prioritise
• Knowledge of Health & Safety

Desirable

• Knowledge caretaker role
• Understanding of handyman tasks, Ability to communicate effectively

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Staff Survey Results

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.