Shift Porter | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking a Porter to join the team at Ormskirk Hospital. The role involves moving patients and equipment, handling waste collection, and providing general support to ensure a high standard of care and safety for patients and staff. Candidates should have experience in a similar role and be ready to contribute to a five-star patient care environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role in a healthcare environment is preferred.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high standards.

Responsibilities

• Move patients in beds and chairs and transport medical equipment.
• Transfer specimens, pharmacy boxes, and important items.
• Collect various types of waste, including hazardous materials.
• Assist and direct patients and visitors effectively.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Porter to join our team here at Ormskirk Hospital.

Porters at Ormskirk Hospital perform a variety of essential duties:

Responsibilities

• Patient and Equipment Transportation: Moving patients in beds and chairs, as well as transporting medical equipment and furniture between departments.
• Logistics and Deliveries: Transferring specimens, pharmacy boxes, and other important items throughout the hospital.
• Waste Collection: Collecting various types of waste, including potentially hazardous materials.
• General Support: Providing assistance and direction to patients and visitors.
• The post holder will assist the Portering team leader providing a customer focused service.
• The post holder will deliver an efficient and effective portering service to patients, visitors, and all wards / departments.
• To ensure the patient environment is maintained to a high standard and safe working practices adhere to in all aspects of environmental/ hygiene management.

Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

About the Trust

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9,000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services

• Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Awards and Quality

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Operations and Compliance

• Financial Management: Ensure economic use of all materials and good practice to minimise waste.
• Quality Management: Maintain and improve all aspects of the service; participate in staff involvement groups for quality.
• Hygiene Management: Ensure compliance with food safety legal requirements; maintain high personal hygiene standards per infection control guidance.
• Human Resources Management: Ensure compliance with trust policies; provide guidance to staff; attend training courses and annual refresher sessions as part of your development.
• Operational Duties: Collect refuse, sweep hospital entrances, maintain a safe environment, respond to fire alarms, issue keys, ensure safe patient movement (including unescorted X-ray/ECG patients), handle confidential patient records, collect/ distribute linen, move furniture and equipment, deliver meals and stores by road vehicles, perform vehicle safety checks, transport bloods/specimens, assist with transfer of bodies where applicable, store keeping, postal delivery/collection, medical gas checking, car parking duties, comply with pharmacy procedures.

This advert closes on Friday 3 Oct 2025