Portering and Transport Manager

Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Northern General Hospital

Town Sheffield

Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata for part time staff

Salary period Yearly

Closing 09/04/2025 23:59

Interview date 30/04/2025

Portering and Transport Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.

Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The Facilities Directorate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is undergoing significant changes and with the forthcoming retirement of the current postholder we are looking to recruit a Portering and Transport Manager to help drive the Facilities agenda.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the Portering and Transport functions across our Acute and Community locations and monitoring service provisions, service level agreements, operating procedures, audit assessment and budget management.

The role will require key leadership skills to implement changes across Portering including the implementation of automated job requests as part of the Trust’s new EPR system as well as helping implement emerging strategies around Pathology transport systems throughout South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw.

Whilst the base for the role is at the Northern General Hospital cross site working and leadership is a key requirement of the role and the post is an important part of the senior management team within the Facilities function.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure each area of responsibility operates smoothly and efficiently, including the systems and IT support available to aid provision of services.
• Ensure an adequate number of hours are available to meet the needs of the service and sufficient staffing levels are provided to cover all service requirements. Oversee the compilation of duty rotas and work schedules.
• Display an open leadership style that encourages and motivates staff to provide excellent services to the Trust.
• Manage and develop staff, supervisors and managers to encourage maximum involvement in the delivery of services and optimise their performance.

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS Teaching Trusts, and one of the most complex providers of acute, community and specialist health services in the country. Across our 5 hospitals and through our community services, we provide care to over 2 million patients each year, employ over 19,000 staff, and have a turnover of £1.5 billion. We provide a comprehensive range of local services to the residents of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire, and also some highly specialist services to all parts of England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification eg Health Services / Business Administration / Project Management Qualification to Post Graduate Diploma Level or relevant
• Short courses / demonstrable experience in IT / Microsoft Office Suite
• Short courses or experience in staff management / supervision e.g. Recruitment & Selection, Managing Attendance, Performance Management, Conducting Appraisals etc
• Masters Level Qualification in a relevant subject / field

Experience

• Significant experience in managing staff teams within an NHS environment or a comparable large organisation.
• Ability to use a variety of IT systems in the production of databases, spreadsheets and monitoring information.
• Experienced in providing statistical reports / analysis on a range of key performance metrics.
• Experience in effective team working across functions and at all levels in the organisation. Experience in producing development plans for self and staff.
• Experience of developing monitoring systems for multi functions e.g. Balanced Scorecard / benchmarking.
• Experience of managing large scale projects using established methodologies to ensure projects are delivered within both budget and time constraints.
• Experience of budget management/monitoring.
• The management of 24/7 services.
• The setting up of Training plans and the delivery of training sessions.
• Knowledge of reception and/or front of house support services.

Further Training

• Evidence of keeping up to date on current leadership practice.
• Evidence of recent training in current legislative areas e.g. Health and safety, Risk management and Working time directive.
• Working knowledge of inspection techniques/audits.
• Working knowledge of inspection techniques e.g. PLACE, ERIC.
• Experience of project work.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines using effective prioritisation skills.
• Ability to communicate with colleagues and staff to achieve agreed outcomes.
• Able to plan, communicate and present development ideas for all key functional areas included in the job spec.
• Analytical skills and an open mind to new and innovative developments.
• Able to take on tasks at short notice and to react flexibly to the needs of the service.