Porter, Portering / Facilities

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

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK seeks a Porter to support patient care by handling various logistic tasks within the hospital. Responsibilities include moving patients, delivering specimens and medications, and maintaining safety standards. Strong communication andbasic IT skills are essential. Join this dynamic team and contribute to high-quality patient services.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Good spoken English, along with good reading and writing skills.
• Basic IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Move patients on beds, trolleys & chairs around the hospital.
• Collect & deliver specimen samples, blood products.
• Deliver pharmaceuticals towards departments.
• Collection & delivery of medical gases.
• Waste service collection.
• Patient food trolleys, clean linen deliveries, postal services.
• Work with the mortuary department.

Job description

Porter, Portering / Facilities

The closing date is 29 September 2025

An opportunity to join a dynamic team with a customer focused approach. Tasks can be patient facing and other tasks involve supporting the clinical teams to ensure the efficient running of the hospital. A flexible approach is essential to ensure that the daily demands of the role can be met. If you like a role which presents a variety of challenges, then come and join the team.

*** Please note we do not offer Certificates of Sponsorships for this role ***

Main duties of the job

To provide and maintain a professional, efficient, effective and timely service to patients, visitors and other departments that will contribute to achieving high quality patient care.

To ensure the service supports the clinical care of patients and respects the privacy & dignity of every patient.

To ensure the health & safety of both recipients and those delivering the service.

To contribute towards best practice within the department.

To assist the porter management team in the development of the service.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job responsibilities

Typical day to day responsibilities of our porters include:

• Moving patients on beds, trolleys & chairs around the hospital.
• Collecting & delivering specimen samples, blood products.
• Delivering pharmaceuticals towards & departments.
• Collection & delivery of medical gases.
• Waste service collection.
• Patient food trolleys, clean linen deliveries, postal services, furniture moves.
• We work with the mortuary department.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good spoken English, along with good reading and writing skills.
• Basic IT skills.

Experience

• Requires a professional and sympathetic approach to people.
• Have the ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Is able to accept criticism and learn from it.
• To work within and be part of the team & carry out tasks independently.
• To have excellent verbal, thinking & reasoning skills.
• Have a good understanding of health & safety.
• Have basic computer knowledge to complete online learning.

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

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust