General Porter

Job overview

Making a difference behind every patient journey

Are you someone who enjoys helping others, takes pride in providing excellent customer service, and thrives in a busy environment? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for enthusiastic, reliable and motivated General Porters to join our Facilities & Logistics Team. Porters play a vital role in supporting the smooth running of the hospital, ensuring patients, staff and departments receive the assistance they need every day.

As a General Porter you will safely transport patients, medical equipment, specimens, clinical supplies, furniture and essential items across the hospital. You will work closely with clinical teams, responding promptly to requests while providing a professional, courteous and compassionate service.

The role is physically active and requires excellent communication skills, a positive attitude and the ability to work effectively as part of a team in a fast-paced environment. Full training will be provided, so previous portering experience is not essential.

In return, we offer a supportive team environment, opportunities for training and development, NHS pension, generous annual leave and access to a range of staff wellbeing benefits.

If you are dependable, caring and committed to making every interaction count, we would love you to become part of our team. We have a number of opportunities we are recruiting to, including permanent and 12 month fixed term roles.

Main duties of the job

What you’ll do in the role

• Safely transporting patients throughout the hospital
• Delivering equipment, supplies, and mail to departments
• Supporting clinical and non-clinical teams

With experience, you could move into a specialist porter role with more responsibility and working in a particular department. You could also work towards becoming a team leader, supervising the work of other porters. With further experience and training, you could become a manager, responsible for portering and other services across our Trust.

You will provide an efficient and effective Trust Wide Portering service to meet the demands of a busy Acute Hospital. A Porter will undertake a range of duties across the Trust in all departments as and when required.

You will ensure good working relationships with all stakeholders, staff, visitors, and patients.

You will work in a self-motivated and professional manner at all times and work well with all disciplines of staff and may be required on occasions to take direction from other professional staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description and person specification for further information about this job.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.