Porter

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Outwoods; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking hard-working, reliable individuals to join our Facilities Team as Porters. The role covers a 24/7 service including nights, weekends and bank holidays; duties include mail tray delivery, patient transfers, movement of equipment and furniture, linen, waste, and pharmaceutical handling; full UK manual driving license is essential.

Training will be provided; opportunities for development and leadership are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in portering or hospital support roles is desirable.
• Ability to work as part of a team and adapt to shift patterns including nights and weekends.
• Full UK manual driving licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out a wide range of portering duties across the site.
• Sort, deliver and collect mail in the post room.
• Move and transfer patients, equipment, furniture, linen, waste, medical records and pharmaceuticals as required.

Skills

Portering duties

Flexible hours

Driving licence

Job description

We are looking for hard working, reliable and flexible individuals to work as a member of the Facilities Team. You will carry out a wide range of Portering duties which is a 24hr/365 days a year service. This role is patient/non patient facing. The work is varied and interesting, it requires initiative, awareness and good customer service skills. You must also have the ability to work as part of a team plus a flexible approach to working hours, which will include nights, weekends and Bank Holidays which are all essential in order to meet the needs of the department. Enhancements are paid for lates, weekends, nights and bank holidays. The position is on a shift basis covering earlies, lates, nights, weekends and bank holidays. This includes sorting/delivery and collection of mail in the post room; dealing with the transfer of patients; movement of equipment and furniture, as well as linen, waste, medical records and pharmaceuticals etc. This is not an exhaustive list Full training will be given. A full UK manual driving licence is essential to this role which needs to include driving vehicles up to 3.5 tonne.

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
  Please note this position is not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of the contract without sponsorship from the Trust.
  We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&E across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.