Theatre Porter

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Oxford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Oxford Hospital is seeking a Theatre Porter to support the surgical team by moving patients, transporting equipment, and helping maintain a clean, safe theatre environment. You’ll be a good communicator and comfortable with physical tasks, with DBS checks as part of the application.

This role involves collaborating with the theatre team, returning patients to their rooms before and after surgery, and working in a fast-moving clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Willing to undergo DBS checks
• Good communication skills
• Comfortable with physical tasks and moving equipment

Responsibilities

• Be part of a close-knit professional team
• Collect and return patients to their individual rooms, before and after surgery
• Work with your colleagues to ensure that the theatre environment and its equipment are fully functioning
• Help with the cleaning of the theatre environment and equipment
• Work in a fast-moving clinical environment
• Maintain constant and effective interaction with our theatre team

Job description

Position Summary

Are you good with people? Do you feel comfortable with physical work, like pushing beds and lifting heavy equipment? If so, this is a fantastic opportunity to join the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, where you can enjoy a highly rewarding role. We’re taking care of the nation’s health and it starts with you. As a Theatre Porter at Oxford Hospital, you’ll need to be a good communicator, as this role involves helping our patients to feel relaxed and reassured, before and after surgery. It’s also essential that you’re happy to undergo our Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, as part of your application.

Key Responsibilities

• Be part of a close-knit professional team


• Collect and return patients to their individual rooms, before and after surgery


• Work with your colleagues to ensure that the theatre environment and its equipment are fully functioning


• Help with the cleaning of the theatre environment and equipment


• Work in a fast-moving clinical environment


• Maintain constant and effective interaction with our theatre team

Why We’re Looking For You

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

Benefits

• Free gym membership


• Health assessments


• Retail discounts


• Pension options

About the Hospital

Nuffield Health Oxford Hospital Our modern hospital is based within a stone’s throw of the historic City of Oxford, a world-renowned centre of excellence for surgical and medical expertise. We are proud of the wonderful environment and team we have established, providing our patients with first class care. We operate 6 well equipped and modern operating theatres with 64 well-presented ensuite rooms. We cater for inpatient and day care, providing a broad range of surgical specialties and clinics including Paediatrics, Oncology, Interventional Cardiology & Radiology, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology as well as women’s and men’s health clinics. The hospital is located with excellent transport links by road and rail, both to and from London, Thames Valley, and the Midlands.

About Nuffield Health

Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. It’s all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.