Porter

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking Porters to join their team in Stevenage. Responsibilities include moving patients, changing medical gases, and transporting specimens. Full training will be provided, and previous hospital experience is desirable but not essential. This role supports the delivery of high-quality patient care within a compassionate environment.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Familiar with Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Willingness to participate in training and put skills into practice.
• Previous hospital experience is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Move patients by bed, wheelchair, and trolley as required.
• Change medical gases as directed.
• Collect blood products and transport to the appropriate area.
• Take specimens to the pathology laboratory.
• Transport deceased patients to the mortuary.

Skills

Familiar with Health and Safety Policies

Willingness to participate in training

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting for Porters who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. The Porter will move patients by bed, wheelchairs, and trolleys, change medical gases, collect blood products, take specimens to the pathology lab, take deceased to the mortuary, and full training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Move patients by bed, wheelchair, and trolley as required
• Change medical gases as directed
• Collect blood products and transport to the appropriate area
• Take specimens to the pathology laboratory
• Transport deceased patients to the mortuary
• Participate in all required training and put skills and knowledge into practice
• Co-operate with the Trust in maintaining suitable standards of Health and Safety, including adherence to Trust Policies and Procedures
• Participate in training identified to fulfil the requirements of this job description
• Fulfil other duties appropriate to the grade as required

Qualifications and Experience

• Familiar with Health and Safety Policies and Procedures
• Willingness to participate in training and put skills into practice
• Previous hospital experience is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided

About East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.