Job summary
- Main area
- Division A - Sterile Services
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-A-243191
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division A
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £22,383 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/08/2024
Employer heading
Sterile Services Porter
Band 2
Job overview
Come and join our enthusiastic, dynamic, flexible and professional Sterile Services Team based at Cambridge University NHS Trust, Cambridge. We provide sterile medical devices across the Trust to a wide range of departments.
The Sterile Services team is seeking a Porter to be based in the Main Sterile Services Department. You will provide a range of support duties for the Sterile Services Department. You will need to be flexible over a range of shift patterns. Your main duties will include the delivery and collection of used and sterile medical devices around the Trust. You must have good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and be able to remain calm in a busy environment.
If you are looking to develop your career, are a proven team player with good communication and organisational skills, enjoy a challenge and have the motivation and desire to help others then please consider applying.
Main duties of the job
To provide a proficient, effective and fully comprehensive portering service for a busy Sterile Services Unit.
Shift being recruited to on this is Monday -Friday 11:00 - 20:00.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.
The advert will close at midnight on 4 August 2024.
Interviews are due to be held on 16 August 2024.
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- NVQ 2 Portering
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience dealing directly with heavy continuous lifting and handling
Desirable criteria
- Health Service experience
- Portering experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent spoken communications
- Proven Team Working
- Ability to work independently
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Richard Cole
- Job title
- Head of Sterile Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 216230
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