Porter - Camberley, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Description
On a typical day as a Porter you can expect to transport patients around the site, move equipment and furniture between wards, collect and deliver essential supplies and samples, undertake Postal Service/messenger duties, collect and dispose of waste and respond to any emergency situations that may arise.
Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to adhere to departmental standards and health and safety regulations.
You will also act at all times in a manner that upholds the Trust's values, working as part of a team to ensure efficiency and excellent customer care.
As a full-time member of staff you will work 37.5 hours a week on a rota shift pattern that includes nights.
As part of the recruitment process you will complete a Maths and English assessment, in order to progress to interview you will need to pass this test.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Applicants will need to be flexible and may be asked to work various shifts patterns, including nights and weekends at times.
- Work to the roster prepared by the site Portering Supervisor.
- Ensure that all patients and visitors are treated in a polite and considerate manner and receive prompt assistance when required. To ensure that telephones are answered efficiently and courteously and that written and / or verbal messages are conveyed quickly, clearly and accurately.
- Transport patients by means of bed, wheelchair or trolley, ensuring that the transportation is carried out in a safe and courteous manner.
- Check that all modes of patient / equipment transport are safe and in good working order, place defect order for any maintenance that is required to your supervisor or departmental Manager.
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