Porter - Grimsby

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

Job summary

The Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Porter for the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby. The role involves providing essential portering services in a busy hospital environment, ensuring patient and staff needs are met efficiently. Candidates should possess basic numeracy skills, a driving license, and experience in a caring environment, with a commitment to customer service and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Candidates should be friendly, polite, and able to work as part of a flexible team.
• Experience of the NHS or a caring environment is preferred.
• Moving and handling experience is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing an efficient, flexible, and customer-focused portering service.
• Undertake tasks like patient movement, distribution, and waste management.
• Accept and undertake work allocated through the task management system.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Education

Basic numeracy and literacy skills

Driving License

Job description

Go back Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Porter - Grimsby

The closing date is 26 May 2025

We currently have an opportunity for a Porter at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital Grimsby in the Facilities Directorate.

Working in a busy acute hospital, you will be required to undertake a range of duties in the provision of portering services, both planned and reactive.

Candidates should be friendly, polite, and able to work as part of a flexible team in a customer service environment.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role. The cost will be deducted from pay over a three-month period once you start employment, and by applying you are agreeing to this undertaking. The Recruitment Team will share more details with you when appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Your role will assist the service in providing an efficient, flexible, and customer-focused portering service across all sites, which will provide a comprehensive, planned, and reactive Portering Service that is reliable, helpful, efficient, and responsive to the needs of Patients, Trust staff, and visitors.

You will accept and undertake work allocated through the task management system using a handheld device, which will involve tasks such as patient movement, distribution, stores, furniture, equipment, pharmacy, meals, pathology items, blood products, waste, movement of deceased, confidential waste, post, and laundry around the hospital site as required.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital, Goole and District Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary, and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas — biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery, and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled, and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership, and our community.

For more information, please visit our updated recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

Job responsibilities

For detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust, we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees. This will positively impact the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life. We recognize that it is a key factor in the recruitment and retention of our staff.

We support and encourage open conversations about working patterns to suit your work-life balance or multi-role careers. If it works for you and the role, we will do our best to accommodate it.

Flexible working arrangements are developed collaboratively between the line manager and employee, ensuring equality of access regardless of role, shift pattern, team, or pay, considering patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery, and work-life balance.

We are committed to creating a fair and supportive working environment where contributions are recognized and valued, and staff feel empowered. Our commitment extends to promoting and safeguarding the physical and mental health and well-being of all staff, aligning with NHS values, supporting us to be an Employer of Choice, and enabling employees to deliver effective patient care.

We highly value the diverse perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to improve outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and the benefits offered to employees, please visit our latest videos and more at https://joinnlag.co.uk/

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We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expect the same from all staff and volunteers.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• Driving License

Occupational Experience

• Experience of the NHS or a caring environment
• Moving and handling experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, requiring a DBS check for any criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust