Theatre Porter

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Oxford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is seeking a Porter to join our Taunton site on a part-time, permanent basis. You will help move patients to and from their rooms, support theatre teams, and ensure a clean, safe theatre environment. A DBS check is required as part of the application process.

The role involves physical work, good communication with patients and staff, and the ability to work in a fast-paced clinical setting. Join a leading private healthcare charity with strong patient-care focus.

Qualifications

• Good communicator
• Willing to undergo DBS checks
• Physically capable of pushing beds and lifting equipment

Responsibilities

• Be part of a close-knit professional team
• Collect and return patients to their rooms before and after surgery
• Work with theatre colleagues to ensure equipment is functioning
• Assist with cleaning of theatre environment and equipment
• Work in a fast-moving clinical environment
• Maintain constant interaction with the theatre team

Job description

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.

• 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.

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. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.