Porter

Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.50 hours per week.

Gloucestershire Health and Care Services NHS Foundation Trust are looking for a friendly, conscientious and motivated individual to join our Facilities Team.

The purpose of the role is to provide portering services within our Community Hospital.

The service we provide operates shifts across 5 days of the week. The successful candidate will be working throughout the hospital in non-patient and inpatient areas. We are looking for a person who can work as part of the team to maintain the high standards.

This patient facing role requires candidates to have good communication skills. The successful candidate will require the ability to follow instructions and procedures via written, verbal and IT methods of communication and preferably have previous experience in a similar role or environment.

A flexible approach towards the work will be required to meet the changing priorities of the workload, duties and department.

Main duties of the job

• Patient movement to appointments ensuring their dignity and safety is maintained at all times.
• Check, monitor gas pressures and contents and record, order medical gases according to correct Trust procedures, report any defects to Facilities Supervisor.
• Undertake driving duties, stores deliveries and equipment removals
• Receive” goods in” and make deliveries - coordinate all deliveries to ensure the best use of resources
• Responsible for waste management on site, collection and storage of waste from locations.
• Timely transportation of post, parcels and medical records to agreed points
• Assist with the removal of curtains as part of the curtain change programme.
• Regularly transport bagged dirty linen from all areas to the appropriate collection area
• Complete property inspections, checking for damage, rectify basic faults e.g. replace ceiling tiles, unblocking toilets. report results using the Estates Fault Reporting portal,
• Conduct basic PPM, tasks such as emergency lighting, fire alarm testing, fire door checks and PAT testing for patient property
• Clean equipment, for example wheelchairs, trolleys – this is not an exhaustive list
• The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Clean equipment, for example wheelchairs, trolleys – this is not an exhaustive list
• This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Government’s UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

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.