Facilities Porter

Job overview

We currently have porter vacancies at Mid Cheshire - we have 3 full time positions 37.5 hours.

Porters move people and items around a hospital site. Porters based at Leighton Hospital work in a dual role. This means that you will be expected to support the Hotel Porters, Waste Porters, Linen Services and Receipts & Distribution.

There is a pool of different shifts which will include - 6 am to 2 pm and 2 pm to 10 pm and every other weekend 1 night shift - 7 pm to 3 am.

A hospital porter should:

• Have good communication skills.
• Be able to work well with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Be friendly, polite and helpful.
• Have a positive outlook.
• Be fit and have high levels of stamina.
• Be able to work well under pressure.
• Act calmly and quickly in emergencies.
• Be able to follow instructions.
• Be reliable, hardworking, honest and trustworthy.
• Respect patient confidentiality.
• Deal sensitively with patients and visitors who are anxious, distressed or very unwell.
• Have a flexible attitude to work

Main duties of the job

You would be ;

• Using special handling techniques to move expensive, specialist medical equipment from one part of the hospital to another.
• Transporting medical supplies, such as oxygen cylinders, and collecting and returning them when they are empty.
• Collecting blood samples and medical specimens from wards, clinics and theatres, and taking them to laboratories.
• Transporting general clinical waste and hazardous materials.
• Removing patients' bodies from wards and operating theatres and taking them to the mortuary.
• Bringing clean sheets and other items to the wards and removing dirty linen.
• Delivering patients' meals to wards and removing used crockery and cutlery.
• Delivering post to different departments of the hospital.
• Delivering supplies to wards and departments.

You will be a part of the portering services team within the estates department and will have contact with clinical and non-clinical staff. You could work with nurses, operating department practitioners, healthcare assistants, housekeepers, security staff or catering staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a Portering service in public, patient and staff areas. To follow NHS guidance and work to the requirements of NHS standards, liaising with departmental and ward managers, housekeepers sand supervisors to deliver a patient focused service

SERVICE DELIVERY

To provide a porter service in all patient, public and staff areas.

To assist with the transfer of patients in and around the Trust.

To transport patients notes from and to wards, departments and medical records library.

To maintain entrances and exits to the premises so that they are free from litter, leaves etc.

To transfer the deceased and accept BID’s in accordance with agreed mortuary procedures

To transport and replace medical gas cylinders for wards and departments To direct patients and visitors around the Trust and help with patient, visitor enquiries.

To collect and distribute goods within the Trust.

To transport & dispose of household, confidential and clinical waste in accordance with Trust Policy.

To maintain and clean manual and electrical equipment and to report maintenance issues to the supervisor

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.