Healthcare Porter inHarrogate inHarrogate PUBLISHED
FRI 25 OCT 2024
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Candidates should possess the ability to move heavy items and have strong interpersonal skills, as the role requires working varied shifts to meet service demands. The position operates 24 hours a day, including night shifts, and new starters will initially be paid according to the old NHS salary scales until the new ones are implemented in October. This role offers an opportunity to be a vital part of a healthcare team in a dynamic hospital environment.
**Please note, the NHS salary scales have recently changed and are expected to come into effect in October. New starters joining the Trust before this time will commence on the old payscales and will move to the new ones once they have been finalised**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Healthcare Porter at Harrogate District Hospital.
We at Harrogate Integrated Facilities (HIF) are inviting applications for a Healthcare Porters role. Duties include patient movement, collection and delivery of specimens and instruments to ward and clinical areas, waste collection and to respond to requests to support/provide assistance for onsite emergency incidents.
What would a working day look like?
You're working early shifts this week and you've been tasked with moving medical equipment from the third floor of the Abbey Wing to the Day Surgery Unit on the ground floor. The equipment is very valuable and delicate, so you use your skills and expertise to move it.
Then you're off to Fountains Ward to take a patient to the x-ray department. You wait until the x-ray is taken and then bring them back to their ward.
The rest of your shift is spent moving patients around the hospital and delivering stocks of emergency drugs to the right wards.
You are an essential part of the hospital team, working with so many different patients and members of staff.
What skills do you need for this role?
The postholder must be able to move heavy items easily and push them considerable distances. They must have good people skills and be able to work a number of shifts to meet the service's needs.
Does this sound like you?
If so, and you'd like to work in a hospital environment and be an essential part of a healthcare team, this could be the role for you!
About us
You will ensure that service users, materials and equipment are safely and appropriately transferred around the hospital to the standard required whilst delivering an effective and efficient service that meets contractual obligation, KPIs and in accordance with agreed Company and Trust policies and procedures.
The Portering Service provides 24 hours per day, including night shifts.
For more information please see the Job Description and Personal Specification attached
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