Porter- Ludlow Hospital

Shropshire Community Health Nhs Trust; Ludlow; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Ludlow is seeking compassionate Porters to support service delivery within their teams. Responsibilities include delivering post, managing store deliveries, assisting with patient prescriptions, and ensuring cleanliness in various areas. The ideal candidate should be caring and respectful, embodying the organization’s commitment to community health and well-being. Join a team that values the input of patients and the public while promoting diversity and a healthy work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of post.
• Receiving NHS stores and other deliveries onto site and store away.
• Collection of patient prescriptions.
• Moving of deceased patients to mortuary.
• Cleaning/tidying of areas like car parks.
• Taking delivery of bio-fuel.
• Setting up of meeting rooms.
• Delivering patients meals from the main kitchen to wards.

Job description

Porters play a vital role in providing an excellent service to all teams. They can be the first point of contact and need to be compassionate, caring, respectful and be able to assist with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of post.
• Receiving NHS stores and other deliveries onto site and store away.
• Collection of patient prescriptions.
• Moving of deceased patients to mortuary.
• Cleaning/tidying of areas e.g. car parks, etc.
• Taking delivery of bio-fuel.
• Setting up of meeting rooms.
• Delivering patients meals from main kitchen to wards e.g breakfasts, etc.
• Working to SCHT policies and guidelines.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.