Bank Porter - Scunthorpe

We are looking for people with a “Can do Attitude” to come and join our bank portering team at Scunthorpe General Hospital who can work on positive Covid-19 areas. You will receive full training for the role of a porter.

The role of a porter can be demanding and requires flexibility to support us during periods of operational pressures. If you believe you have the physical agility to conduct patient, equipment, and material moves around the hospital site, and can demonstrate our values, Kindness, Courage and Respect, we would like to hear from you.

Your role will involve working within a team to provide a high-quality Porter Service which offers a timely, responsive, and proactive system for the movement of patients, materials, and equipment within the Site and undertake a number of other specified support and ancillary tasks as per the requirements of the service.

Your role will assist the service in providing an efficient, flexible, and customer-focused porter service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week across all sites, which will provide a comprehensive, planned, and reactive Porter Service that is reliable, helpful, efficient, and responsive to the needs of Patients, Trust staff, and visitors.

You will accept and undertake work allocated through the task management system using a hand-held device, which will involve such tasks as patient movement, distribution, stores, furniture, equipment, pharmacy, meals, pathology items, blood products, waste, movement of deceased, confidential waste, post, and laundry around the Hospital site as required.

There is a 6-8 week training period where you will be expected to be available to work Monday to Friday, various shift hours covering 24 hours. Following the training period and after working independently for a period of time, then we would look to place you into a contracted position dependent on availability. We currently have a number of 22.5hr contracted positions available, with the option for additional shifts.

NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery, and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled, and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group, and our community.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison McCulley Job title: Logistics Coordinator Email address: a.mcculley@nhs.net Telephone number: 03033 305005

Seniority level

• Internship

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other
• Industries: Hospitals and Health Care