Job summary
- Main area
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Grade
- 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6088936-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- WHITCHURCH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
- Town
- WHITCHURCH SHROPSHIRE
- Salary
- £22,383 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Porter- Whitchurch Hospital
2
Job overview
To work alone or as part of a team providing a high standard of service for patients, visitors, staff and outside agencies.
7 am start to 3 pm including weekend and bank holiday rotas. Bank positions are also available. Pay enhancements are made for weekend and bank holiday hours.
Main duties of the job
Porters play a vital role in providing an excellent service to all teams.
They can be the first point of contact and need to be compassionate, caring, respectful and be able to assist with confidence.
- Delivery of post.
- Receiving NHS stores and other deliveries onto site and store away.
- Collection of patient prescriptions.
- Moving of deceased patients to mortuary.
- Cleaning/tidying of areas e.g. car parks, etc.
- Taking delivery of bio-fuel.
- Setting up of meeting rooms.
- Delivering patients meals from main kitchen to wards e.g breakfasts, etc.
- Working to SCHT policies and guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of literacy and numeracy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of portering.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- General awareness of safety in the workplace.
- Be able to follow instruction and prioritise workload.
- Willing to use equipment as necessary.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paula Harding
- Job title
- Site, Hotel Services & Administration Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01948 509241
- Additional information
01948 666292
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