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Job overview

Come and join our enthusiastic, dynamic and flexible radiology team as a radiology porter based at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.  Your main duties will include assisting with both patient and non-patient manual handling.   You will be collecting patients from wards for imaging and returning afterwards, managing the workload within the demands of the department.

You must have good communication and organisational skills and be able to remain calm in a busy environment.

This is a full-time post which will include 7 days working.  Applicants should make themselves fully aware of the job description and person specification before applying.

What we look for:

· Individuals who show they can work to our Trust core values

· Good communicators with an ability to work both alone and in a team 

. Someone with a proactive and flexible approach to provide the best care for our patients across the 7 day service

· Full training will be given

Main duties of the job

You will work in the Radiology department with the primary role of patient transfers for all modalities including X-ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound.  This is an important role supporting the staff to provide a high quality service ini a department with large numbers of patients each day.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.