Job summary
As a Porter, you'll be expected to carry out a variety of tasks throughout your shift. You'll often be on the move, walking long distances while transporting patients, equipment, furniture, waste, laundry, notes, specimens, and more across our Trust sites.
You'll provide a thorough portering service for the Facilities Operations department, ensuring everything is moved safely and that equipment is cleaned and checked for faults.
You'll work closely with patients, visitors, and colleagues, always maintaining a polite and courteous manner. Plus, you'll be involved in our onsite courier service, helping with deliveries around the Trust sites.
Main duties of the job
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You'll provide a comprehensive porter service for our Facilities department.
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You'll ensure the safe movement of patients, equipment, furniture, waste, laundry, notes, specimens, and more around our Trust sites.
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You'll make sure equipment is cleaned and regularly checked for any faults.
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You'll work alongside patients, visitors, and colleagues in a polite and courteous manner.
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You'll take part in our Trust's courier service, which includes community sites.
About us
As an integrated care organisation, our Trust's purpose is to provide safe, high-quality health and social care at the right time, in the right place to support the people of Torbay and South Devon to live their lives to the full.
The Workplace teams underpin the provision of clinical services, employing approximately 600 staff, delivering Workplace services across all sites within the Trust.
We need all Workplace staff to own and live our organisational values.
o Working together for people
o Commitment to quality care
o Compassion
o Improving lives
o Everyone counts
o Respect and dignity
Why work with us?
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure that patients are moved around the hospital in a safe and professional manner by whatever means (Stretcher, Wheelchair, Trolley etc.)
- To ensure that items such as mail, patient notes, waste, laundry, medical gas cylinders and laboratory specimens are collected and delivered safely around the Trust sites with appropriate handling equipment.
- Deliver hospital supply cages to wards and departments and collect and return empty cages
- To maintain daily vehicle sheets and submit to supervisor and maintain cleanliness of vehicles
- To ensure that the departments equipment i.e. trolleys, wheelchairs, bed movers etc. are cleaned regularly and any faults are reported to the supervisor immediately.
- To ensure that Wheelchairs and Trolleys are cleaned/disinfected between patients as necessary
- To provide a portering service to the residential areas regarding delivery and sorting of mail, linen rubbish dirty laundry, movement of furniture, stores and equipment etc.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure that patients are moved around the hospital in a safe and professional manner by whatever means (Stretcher, Wheelchair, Trolley etc.)
- To ensure that items such as mail, patient notes, waste, laundry, medical gas cylinders and laboratory specimens are collected and delivered safely around the Trust sites with appropriate handling equipment.
- Deliver hospital supply cages to wards and departments and collect and return empty cages
- To maintain daily vehicle sheets and submit to supervisor and maintain cleanliness of vehicles
- To ensure that the departments equipment i.e. trolleys, wheelchairs, bed movers etc. are cleaned regularly and any faults are reported to the supervisor immediately.
- To ensure that Wheelchairs and Trolleys are cleaned/disinfected between patients as necessary
- To provide a portering service to the residential areas regarding delivery and sorting of mail, linen rubbish dirty laundry, movement of furniture, stores and equipment etc.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- Basic numeracy and literacy skills
- Willingness to undertake training relevant to the post
- Full Driving License
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- oAbility to communicate at all levels, including staff, patients, visitors and students
- oTeam working skills
- oAbility to work independently and to prioritise work
- oAbility to work under pressure
- oAbility to maintain a patient, calm and methodical approach when undertaking multiple tasks within a busy hospital environment
- oEnthusiastic, approachable and confident
Desirable
- oWorking in a hospital environment or hotel services environment
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- Basic numeracy and literacy skills
- Willingness to undertake training relevant to the post
- Full Driving License
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- oAbility to communicate at all levels, including staff, patients, visitors and students
- oTeam working skills
- oAbility to work independently and to prioritise work
- oAbility to work under pressure
- oAbility to maintain a patient, calm and methodical approach when undertaking multiple tasks within a busy hospital environment
- oEnthusiastic, approachable and confident
Desirable
- oWorking in a hospital environment or hotel services environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
