Job Summary

Hospital porters provide a varied and supportive role to clinical and non-clinical teams. This includes the movement of patients on beds, trolleys, and wheelchairs. It also involves the movement of equipment, medication, medical gases, post, patient notes, patient meals, consumables, waste, samples, and test results from one place to another; enabling care and services to continue. Applicants must be able to work a rotational shift pattern.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

• Work in a safe, courteous, and confidential manner whilst following Trust Policy and associated Standard Operating Procedures relating to the task being carried out.
• Be in designated place of work from agreed shift time to agreed shift end time.
• Maintain a level of Portering service throughout the Trust and/or your designated work area by following a planned schedule of work as well as making flexible alterations when required.
• Wear supplied uniform in accordance with the Trust Policy and Procedure and comply with Infection Control Policy.
• Respond to tasks allocated by Portering supervisors or Helpdesk Controller either verbally or via communication devices.
• Assist patients into wheelchairs and onto bed ensuring their comfort in readiness for transport to a designated area.
• Move patients by wheelchair or bed or stretcher around the hospital site from various wards and departments or the helipad and can involve some distance including, where directed, using the internal ambulance.
• Assist patients requiring support on discharge from nursing unit or treatment area to the hospital exit points.
• Ensure patient safety during transport by keeping regularly used equipment such as wheelchairs and trolleys clean; reporting improperly working equipment to supervisor for repair and storing in readily accessible area.
• Transfer deceased patients from wards and departments to the mortuary and complete associated portering mortuary duties. Assist out-of-hours viewing with nursing staff as required.