Porter | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stevenage is seeking a Porter to join their Portering team. This role involves moving patients, changing medical gases, and maintaining Health and Safety standards. While previous hospital experience is desirable, full training will be provided. The successful candidate will be required to work flexible shifts and contribute to a compassionate care environment. Join a dedicated team focused on delivering high-quality services to patients.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a hospital is desirable but not essential.
• Familiarity with Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Willingness to participate in training as required.

Responsibilities

• Move patients by bed, wheelchairs, and trolleys.
• Change medical gases and collect blood products.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety standards.

Skills

Flexibility

Teamwork

Good communication

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.

An opportunity has arisen within the Portering team at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust for a general porter to join our team at Lister Hospital. You will need to be flexible as we are a 24/7 department 365 days of the year.

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

This role involves working on a rolling rota 06.30-14.30/14.30-22.30.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

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 cooperate 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.

The 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.

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.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025.