Porter -Theatres

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is recruiting a Porter to support patient transport and hospital operations in Stevenage. The role involves moving patients by bed, wheelchair or trolley, assisting with blood product handling and specimen transport.

Full training will be provided and you will work within Trust health and safety policies. Experience in a hospital setting is desirable but not essential.

Qualifications

• Previous hospital experience desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Move patients by bed, wheelchair, and trolley.
• Change medical gases as required.
• Collect blood products for transfusion.
• Take specimens to the pathology lab.
• Full training will be provided.

Job description

We are recruiting for Porter who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients., The Porter will move patients by bed, wheelchairs, and trolleys, change medical gases, collect blood products, take specimens to the pathology lab, add full training will be provided. You will be familiar with appropriate Health and Safety Policies and Procedures. The successful candidate will co-operate 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.

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

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.