Porter

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking Porters who will move patients safely and efficiently across their facilities. The role includes changing medical gases, collecting blood products, and ensuring Health and Safety standards are adhered to. Full training will be provided, and previous hospital experience is desirable but not required. The organization supports flexible working arrangements, ensuring a work-life balance for staff.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a hospital is desirable but not essential.
• You will participate in training to fulfil job requirements.
• Ability to comply with Trust Policies and Procedures.

Responsibilities

• Move patients by bed, wheelchairs, and trolleys.
• Change medical gases and collect blood products.
• Take specimens to the pathology lab.

Skills

Familiarity with Health and Safety Policies

Ability to move patients

Job description

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. You will be familiar with appropriate Health and Safety Policies and Procedures. The successful candidate will co-operate with the Trust in maintaining suitable standards of Health and Safety including adhering to all Trust Policies and Procedures, always work in compliance with rules and working practices. Th post holder is required to participate in training as appropriate and put your skills and knowledge into practice. Training will be identified and carried out to fulfil the requirements of this job description You may also be required to fulfil other duties as appropriate to the grade that may be determined from time to time.

Previous experience in a hospital is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided.

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.