Porters

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Responsibilities

• Moving patients in beds and chairs, as well as transporting medical equipment and furniture between departments.
• Transferring specimens, pharmacy boxes, and other important items throughout the hospital. Use of trust vehicles for pathology sample deliveries and other deliveries.
• Collecting various types of waste, including potentially hazardous materials.
• Providing assistance and direction to patients and visitors; the post holder will assist the Portering team leader, providing a customer‑focused service.
• Delivering an efficient and effective portering service to patients, visitors, and all wards/departments.
• Ensuring the patient environment is maintained to a high standard and safe working practices are adhered to in all aspects of environmental/hygiene management.
• Ensuring economic use of all materials and minimising waste.
• Maintaining good customer relations with patients and other staff groups.
• Maintaining and improving all aspects of the service.
• Participating, as appropriate, in staff involvement groups for all aspects of quality.
• Ensuring compliance with all legal requirements of food safety.
• Maintaining high standards of personal hygiene as advised by infection control.
• Ensuring compliance with all trust policies.
• Providing guidance and assistance to new or existing members of staff.
• Attending required training courses and participating in annual refresher sessions in accordance with the personal development programme.
• Collecting refuse, including clinical, domestic, confidential, special and recyclable waste from wards and departments as and when required.
• Brushing all hospital entrances to ensure high standards.
• Maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff, patients and visitors, including regular security inspections and attending security incidents. Responding to the activation of the fire alarm system.
• Issuing keys.
• Safe patient movement (including unescorted X‑ray and ECG patients).
• Movement of case notes in line with trust policy regarding confidentiality and data protection.
• Collecting soiled linen and distributing clean linen.
• Moving furniture and equipment in wards and offices when required.
• Delivering meals, stores and provisions to wards by means of using road vehicles, both electrical and fuel‑powered.
• Carrying out daily safety checks on meal‑delivery vehicles.
• Safely collecting and transporting bloods and specimens to the labs.
• Transporting blood to and from pathology and theatre.
• Assisting with the transfer of bodies from wards to the mortuary.
• Storekeeping, including storage and stock rotation.
• Postal delivery/collection as required.
• Medical gas checking and replacement.
• Car‑parking duties (includes issuing car‑park tokens).
• Complying with pharmacy work procedures as required.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspectives and experiences you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and, in particular, those from under‑represented groups.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.