ED Porter

Job overview

ED Porter

37.5 hours per week (see shift pattern below)

Permanent

Salary: £24,465 per annum

Closing Date: 17th November 2025

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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Main duties of the job

The main duty of the post holder is to provide a portering service to the Emergency Department, support patient transfers to the wards and to carry out routine ADHOC duties – supporting with department deliveries.

Liaising with the nurse in charge of emergency department and operational teams.

Shift Pattern - 13 x 11.5 hours shifts every 4 weeks. Shift times are 07:30-20:00 and 11:30-00:00

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a portering service t the Emergency Department. To escort and convey patients by wheelchair, bed or trolley.
• Transfer patients to wards, x-rays, CT scans, ultrasound, MRI and endoscopy.
• To assist with the movement of patients using clinical manual handling procedures including pat slides and log rolling techniques. To use reasonable judgement when preparing to move a patient and check with clinical staff in unsure.
• To transfer various specimens of blood to the pathology department.
• to deliver and collect prescriptions from pharmacy.
• Fetch blood from blood bank.
• To assist in cardiac arrests.
• To transports records to wards with patients on transfers.
• To report any suspicious incidents and assist where necessary.
• Support nurse in charge and operational team where required.
• Attend mandatory training courses which include moving and handling, resuscitation, infection control, clinical governance, fire training, dealing with conflict training, pat slide training and log role training.
• Operate communications device to keep in touch with other staff in the department.
• To assist with pat slides in the department, wards and CT.
• To assist with log roles in the department and C

Relationships

• Internal: All George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust staff
• External:  Police Service - Ambulance Service - Visitors  - External agencies

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.