# Portering Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

## Canonical URLs

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Location:** Castle Hill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified)
- **Salary:** £32073.00 to £39043.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30T09:28:55.139Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8325022
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8325022?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.hull.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Main duties of the job

- Oversee daily operations, including rota planning, 24/7 shift coverage, performance monitoring, and task prioritisation.
- Direct, train, and mentor supervisors and portering staff, managing HR processes, attendance, and appraisals.
- Ensure strict adherence to health and safety, infection control, and patient movement standards, completing incident reports and risk assessments.
- Support budget monitoring, utilise departmental software, and generate activity reports to drive service improvements.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of high levels of interest. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.

Please note that, in line with UKVI regulations, this vacancy does not meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route. As a result, we are unable to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position.

We remain committed to fair and equal recruitment practices and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Application Completion

**Essential**

- All Sections completed in Full.

### Education/ Qualifications

**Essential**

- NVQ Level 3 in Leadership and Management or demonstrable equivalent experience
- NVQ in customer care or equivalent
- GCSE English and Maths or equivalent

**Desirable**

- IOSH Managing Safely
- Manual Handling Trained
- Fire Safety trained
- Health & Safety trained

### Special Attributes and other

**Essential**

- Physically fit
- Flexibility towards working arrangements
- Caring and understanding approach
- Keeps calm under pressure and in difficult situations
- Interested in self-development

**Desirable**

- Knowledge & understanding of NHS Portering Services

### Knowledge, Training & Experience

**Essential**

- 3 years in an NHS or customer focused environment
- Leadership and Management skills
- Overseeing a large group of staff
- Report writing
- Budget/Finance
- IT Skills including spreadsheets
- Ability to prioritise own workload
- Proactive, target driven, and problem solver

**Desirable**

- Experience working in hospital or similar environment
- Driving passenger transport or delivery vehicles
- Knowledge of NHS plans, targets and initiatives

### Communication and Interpersonal Skills

**Essential**

- Good standard of written and verbal communication skills

## Documents

- [jd&ps b5 (pdf, 292.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10647061)
- [our promise (pdf, 313.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1964)
- [remarkable people (pdf, 3.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1965)

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