MFT Team Member

Job summary

This role is for a member of the Portering services at Musgrove Park Hospital.

It covers the full range of normal Portering tasks consisting of moving patients around the site to the wards and departments so the applicant will need to be able to walk long distances for the entire shift.

Main duties of the job

This work includes transferring patients to the mortuary and responding to urgent requests for help such as Fire response and helicopter landing team.

The role involves a significant amount of face to face contact with both other staff, patients and visitors to the site.

This is a full 24/7 shift pattern position, including nights and weekends.

About us

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan - there is truly something for everyone!