Theatre Porter

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputed healthcare institution in Salisbury is seeking motivated Porters to support Theatre services. The role involves providing high-quality care to patients, dealing with both the general public and vulnerable individuals. Candidates must have a UK driving license, good numeracy and literacy skills, and the ability to work flexibly. This physically demanding position offers a salary of £24,465 per annum pro rata and includes benefits like a generous pension scheme and paid holidays.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Minimum 35 days paid holiday

Generous pension scheme

On-site leisure centre

Qualifications

• Experience dealing with the general public.
• Ability to walk long distances and carry out physically demanding tasks.
• Ability to communicate formally and informally.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, caring, and customer-oriented service to patients.
• Work with the Operating Theatre services.

Skills

UK Driving Licence

Good level of numeracy and literacy

Ability to work as a member of the team

Friendly approach

Reliability

Job description

Do you want to be part of something special and help us to modernise our theatre services?

We are looking to recruit motivated and enthusiastic porters to help support our Theatre services. All we ask is that you bring lots of ideas, a proactive nature and a keenness to embrace change and personal development!

Unfortunately we cannot accept those who need sponsorship to work in this role due to government guidelines.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high quality, caring, safe and customer orientated service to patients, relatives, careers, staff and members of the public, who use the Operating Theatre services

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

• UK Driving Licence
• Good level of numeracy and literacy
• Ability to work as a member of the team or on your own initiative
• Ability to walk long distances and be capable of carrying out a physically demanding occupation
• Ability to demonstrate a good work attendance record
• To have a flexible and friendly approach in all aspects of your work
• To be hard-working and reliable. Ability and willingness to undertake training as and when required
• The ability to respect and maintain the patients' rights for confidentiality
• Communicate formally and informally with staff at varying level within Trust

Experience

• Experience of dealing with the general public
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable people
• Experience of using some form of computer based system

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.

Anaesthetic, SAL and Theatre Porter Lead

£24,465 a yearper annum pro rata if part time