Porter

NHS; Warrington; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Porter to efficiently carry out a full range of portering duties within the hospital. Responsibilities include the transfer of patients, transportation of equipment, and ensuring overall patient safety. The ideal candidate should have previous portering experience, evidence of manual handling abilities, and good communication skills. This is a rewarding role within a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Evidence of manual handling and physical fitness.
• Experience working in a hospital portering role.
• Demonstrate flexibility within advertised role.

Responsibilities

• Transfer patients safely from one area to another.
• Carry out portering duties within the hospital.
• Assist nursing staff with patient movement.

Skills

Manual handling

Good clear communication

Flexibility

Education

NVQ certificate

Job description

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

Porter

The closing date is 02 December 2025

A&E is a fast paced working environment , We are a multidisciplinary team working together to provide high standard of care for our patients.

As a porter, you will carry out a full range of portering duties within the hospital, which will include the efficient transfer of patients, transportation of equipment, ward/department-based furniture, pathology specimens, linen, and waste.

It would be desirable that you have previous experience in a Porter role.

Main duties of the job

Main tasks and responsibilities

• To work collaboratively within Clinical Business Unit (CBU)/ Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC)
• Carry out the movement of patients from department to department using wheelchairs trolleys or beds.
• Assist nursing staff with the movement of patient beds.
• Carry out the delivery of Pharmacy Supplies and collection of Pharmacy boxes from Wards and departments.
• Ensure routine tasks are completed such as the portering of pathology samples including the collection of blood/blood product.
• Basic security duties.
• Collect patient case notes on request, ensuring the correct notes are collected.
• Ensure domestic waste, clinical waste and soiled linen is collected, transported and stored in accordance with procedure.
• Transport Oxygen cylinders to wards on request, checking the gauges beforehand.
• Take delivery of oxygen cylinders and ensure they are stored correctly.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and job specification within the vacancy information to ensure the role is right for you.

The Porter role will transfer patients safely from one area to another and will report to the Nurse Co-ordinator for allocation of any outstanding portering tasks.

Person Specification

Skills

• Evidence of manual handling and physical fitness
• NVQ certificate

communication

• Evidence of good clear communication

flexibility

• Demonstrate flexibility within advertised role
• open to learning new skills and working ideas

Experience

• Experience working in a hospital portering role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT