Porter Manchester, England
Job description
Job Title: Porter
Location: North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, M8 5RB
Shift Pattern: Various shift patterns per week on a flexible rota, must be available to work days, nights and weekends (shifts depending on departmental needs)
Pay: £10.42 per hour, plus enhanced rates for weekends and bank holidays
Trust Location: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
About the Trust:
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK, employing over 28,000 staff. It was formed on 1st October 2017 and since then has been responsible for running a family of nine hospitals across six separate sites, providing a wide range of services from comprehensive local general hospital care through to highly specialized regional and national services.
What you’ll be responsible for:
· To provide a porter 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 drive Trust vehicles to transfer patients and hospital equipment to various sites.
· To collect and deliver mail within the hospital
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
· Possess a friendly and helpful nature.
· Have excellent communication & organisation skills.
· 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.
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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.
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Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Salary: £10.42 per hour
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekend availability
Application question(s):
- do you have previous NHS experience?
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 62837
