Porter Kidderminster, England
Job description
Job Title: Porter
Location: Kidderminster Treatment Centre, Bewdley Road, Kidderminster, DY11 6RJ
Shift Pattern: Mondays – Sundays, working any hours between 7am and 11pm. Working 5 days out of 7 days (on rota)
Trust Location: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is the place for you.
About the Trust
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust provides hospital-based services from three main sites - theAlexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre, and Worcestershire Royal Hospitalin Worcester.
We provide a wide range of services to a population of 580,000 people in Worcestershire as well as caring for patients from surrounding counties and further afield.
What you’ll be responsible for:
· To provide a portering and messenger service, including the transfer of patients and visitors between wards and departments including A&E admissions to wards and transfers between A&E, X-ray and wards.
· To collect and deliver a range of goods including, drugs, bloods, furniture, feed bottles, case notes, specimens, x-rays and medical gas cylinders.
· To be responsible for the regular and sufficient removal of general, recycling and clinical waste.
· To ensure all waste streams are segregated, handled, and disposed of in line with the site requirements.
· To comply with the health and safety procedures when moving waste around the site.
· Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with training received.
The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.
You’ll have the following skills/experience:
· Happy to be in a fast-paced physical role
· Eye for detail
· A good understanding of spoken and written English.
· Trained in Manual Handling
As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:
· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
· Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
· Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours
Who are NHS Professionals?
We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.
As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.
Apply Today
By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.
Disclaimer
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Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Salary: £10.37 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Application question(s):
- do you have previous experience as a porter?
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 60702
