Bank Portering Operative - Bristol, United Kingdom - North Bristol NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust

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Bristol, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Are you interested in finding out more about Portering roles within our NBT eXtra team?

Here are a few reasons to apply

NBTeXtra bank workers are valued members of our team and have access to exceptional benefits, including access to the NHS Pension scheme, and full training and induction support
NBTeXtra offer flexible working patterns to meet your needs, offering earlies, lates, long days and nights with competitive rates. £11.45 per hour
Week days

- £16.49 per hour

Nights and Saturdays

- £21.53 per hour

Sundays and Bank Holidays
All rates are inclusive of annual leave allowance
State of the art facilities

- you will be based within our award-winning Brunel building, which has recently won Best Acute Hospital Development at the 2017 Building Better Healthcare Awards in London and Best Healthcare Design over 25,000sqm at the European Healthcare Awards

You will increase your skill set by working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver all admin support across many different areas within the Trust.

Are you excited at the prospect of supporting our Trust by providing a comprehensive patient support service in the hospital environment.

This will involve carrying out the following Facilities Management functions:

The primary function is the movement of patients, consumable products, waste, furniture, medical equipment, gasses, beds, mattresses
Responsible for the collection and distribution of waste
Monitoring the effectiveness of the local segregation of waste, escalating any concerns to the Waste Supervisor
The cleaning of all Portering equipment, mopping of spillages and responding to Major incident

NBT Extra is the Temporary Bank of staff that supports the running of one of the Southwest's largest hospitals.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead.

We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities.

Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals.

We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups

For a full overview of the Job Description, please refer to the PDF Job Description attached as an additional document to this advert.

To Transport Patients in a safe manner via wheelchair, bed and trolley
To escort, when necessary patients who are deemed to not to require a medical escort to and from wards and departments
Assist with transfer of Patients from Helicopter landing pad to A&E
Transportation of the deceased to the mortuary including babies in dignified manner
Delivery and collection of diagnostic samples and Pathology reports
Collection of soiled linen from wards and departments to be taken to the designated waste hold
Delivery and collection of medical gas cylinders to wards and departments and the fitting of applicable regulators. Also responsible for changing cylinders in designated gas manifold plant rooms
Delivery and collection of hospital supplies as directed and where appropriate, complete the relevant paperwork. Supplies may include, but are not limited to; post, medical records, medical equipment, pharmaceutical product etc.
Transportation of furniture to and from wards and departments
Responsible for reporting all items of equipment, spillages, defects and debris left in corridors and general circulation to Team Leader
Drive various types of vehicles i.e. vans, lorries, ambulance and electric trucks (where relevant licences are held) if required
Carry out standard vehicle checks i.e. tyres, lights, brakes and complete relevant paperwork
Loading AGV roll cage, ensuring the cage has the correct AGV transporter cards as directed by PST Team leader
Collecting waste bins/carts /from AGV stations and movement around the hospital and designated waste store