Spire Healthcare Group plc
Bank Patient Support Porter
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Job Description
Bank Patient Support Porter | Theatres | Spire Murrayfield - Edinburgh | Bank | Weekly pay
Spire Murrayfield Hospital is looking to recruit a Patient Support Porter to join their fantastic Theatre team on a bank basis.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Correctly undertake tasks that have been delegated in relation to specific patients as agreed with the care team
- Prepare patient, equipment and materials appropriately
- Obtain consent from patients before starting the tasks e.g. moving and handling, ensuring patient comfort and safety at all times
- Moving patient from bed to trolley; trolley to operating table; operating table to trolley; trolley to bed
- Identify and report to an appropriate person any significant changes that might affect the patient’s health and well-being during escort duties and moving/handling
- Respect patients’ privacy, dignity, wishes and beliefs and minimise any necessary discomfort
- Record information related to designated tasks and activities accurately and passes it on to the relevant person in the team on time
- Liaise with the theatre team regarding the organisation of theatre lists
- Provide patient support within the anaesthetic room
- Ensure moving and handling equipment is clean and in safe working order
- Ensure table attachments are clean and in working order
- Transport safely and timely specimens from theatre to the designated area, recording legibly and accurately necessary details
- Transport equipment as delegated by the theatre team
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Who We're Looking For
- General portering abilities
- Infection control knowledge
- Health and safety knowledge
- Customer facing experience
Benefits
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
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We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group that has been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 40 years. We have 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
Closing date:
In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
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