Theatre Porter

Nuffield Health; Staplegrove; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

NHS Jobs is advertising a Theatre Porter at Taunton Hospital. This permanent, full‑time role supports the theatre team, helps move patients to and from wards, and ensures equipment and the theatre environment are ready for procedures.

You will communicate clearly with patients and staff, handle physically demanding tasks, and comply with DBS checks. The closing date is 6 October 2026, with applications advised to apply promptly.

Qualifications

• DBS checks required.

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

Theatre Porter

CAPTION:

• Company: NHS Jobs
• Salary: Negotiable
• Hours: Full-time
• Location: Taunton, TA2 6AN
• Job type: Permanent
• Posting date: 8 Sept 2026
• Closing date: 6 Oct 2026

Summary

Porter Taunton Hospital | Porter | Permanent | Part time | Up to £25,700.00 pro rata per annum depending on experience | 27 hours per week

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 Porter at our Taunton 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.

As a Hospital Porter, you will:

• 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

Helping you feel good. 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.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is one of the leading providers of private healthcare in the South West. We've built a reputation for clinical excellence and outstanding patient care over the last 40 years. We are constantly investing in our modern hospital. With three new state of the art Ultra Clean Air operating theatres and an endoscopy suite, we are proud of the wide range of surgical services and treatments available.

The hospital has 41 private en-suite bedrooms split over 2 wards and 11 consulting rooms within our Outpatients Department. Our areas of specialty include orthopedics and spinal surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, bariatric treatments and diagnostic imaging. Our most recent CQC inspection was undertaken in 2024 and we were enormously proud to be rated overall as Good, with Outstanding for Well Led.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. It starts with you.