Porter

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is seeking portering staff to support patient movement, supply delivery, and waste handling across the trust. The role requires compassionate care for patients and relatives, professional conduct, and efficient use of portering equipment to ensure patient comfort and safety.

Responsibilities include moving patients with wheeled equipment, transporting specimens to laboratories, handling clinical waste, and maintaining dignity for deceased patients.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates compassion and care for patients and relatives.
• Maintains politeness and professional appearance at all times.
• Ability to workwithin a portering team to support patient flow.

Responsibilities

• Transport patients around the trust using wheeled equipment.
• Collect, transport and dispose of waste materials including clinical waste.
• Transport specimens and blood products to laboratories and wards.
• Move deceased patients with dignity.
• Use TeleTracking portering software to coordinate tasks.

Skills

Compassionate care

Polite and respectful

Teamwork

Patient handling

Tools

TeleTracking

Job description

The portering department transfers patients, goods and any other items around the trust in a prompt, professional and efficient manner. Porters respond to requests for their services as quickly as possible in order to provide a positive patient experience in a safe professional manner and first-class service that epitomises the Christie reputation.
This is a position that includes a whole spectrum of duties, from showing compassion and care for patients and relatives to physically demanding tasks such as moving and storing gas cylinders or furniture. A main component of the position is the collection, transportation and disposal of waste materials including clinical waste from wards and theatres.
The successful applicant will be on the front line and will be expected to be always polite, respectable, and smart in appearance., To transfer all patients throughout the trust estate in a prompt, professional and efficient manner as requested using appropriate means of transport, using the portering management software TeleTracking.
To collect, transport and dispose of waste materials including clinical waste from wards and theatres, following Trust guidelines on waste management at all times.
The collection and delivery of specimens, bloods from wards/depts. and delivery to the laboratories in a prompt, professional and efficient manner using the portering management software TeleTracking.
The collection of blood products from the blood room and delivery to wards/depts. in a prompt, professional and efficient manner as per blood products transfusion training and procedures.
To collect and transport patients from all areas of the site using a variety of wheeled equipment, e.g. wheelchairs, trollies, beds.
The movement of deceased patients from the wards/depts. to the Mortuary in a prompt, professional and efficient manner always maintaining the respect and dignity of the patient.
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.