Theatre Porter (Bank)

Nuffield Health; Oxford; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Pension scheme

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Oxford Hospital Theatre Porter (Bank) is a part-time role with Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity. You will assist with patient movement before and after surgery, support theatre operations, and help keep the environment and equipment clean and ready. DBS checks are a condition of applying.

This bank role is ad-hoc, offering flexibility to fit your availability while joining a supportive theatre team in a busy hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Good communicator, able to reassure patients before and after surgery.
• Happy to undertake DBS checks as part of application.
• Comfortable with physical work, including moving beds and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a close-knit professional team.
• Collect and return patients to their rooms before and after surgery.
• Ensure theatre environment and equipment are fully functioning.
• Help with cleaning of the theatre environment and equipment.
• Work in a fast-moving clinical environment.
• Maintain constant and effective interaction with the theatre team.

Skills

Communication skills

Physical stamina

Job description

Theatre Porter (Bank) Oxford Hospital | Nursing | Bank | Part time Up to £14.00 per hour depending on experience

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability. 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 l, 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 Theatre 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.

• From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

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.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

It starts with you. 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.