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Job Description
We are seeking to recruit a proactive and motivated individual to join our busy Ancillary team, providing a comprehensive porter service at North Somerset Community Hospital, based in Clevedon.
About the Role
The Porter role supports the hospital and all departments by delivering a reliable, helpful, and efficient service to patients, staff, and visitors across the hospital site.
Key Responsibilities
- General Surveillance: Security purposes of people entering and leaving the building.
- Assistance: Assisting patients, visitors, and contractors with access and general queries.
- Communication: Dealing with staff enquiries and escalating appropriately to relevant person.
- Mail Services: Deliver and collect mail from hospital units and departments.
- Equipment Management: Storage and returns of Medequip equipment in outside stores.
- Supply Chain: Accept deliveries, assist in uploading of stores, transfer to hospital stores and departments, and distribute general supplies.
- Stock Management: Restock, issue, and rotate stores. Keeping in good order.
- Stores and Equipment: Collect and deliver Pharmacy to wards and clinical areas.
- Specimen Handling: Collect specimens from all departments ready for collection.
- Furnishings: Assemble furnishings.
- Linen Management: Top-up Linen.
- Patient Transport: Transport patients between wards and departments as instructed.
- Maintenance: Keep yard and waste bin clean and orderly.
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Health, Safety, and Security
- Food Safety: To receive and check food deliveries, checking delivery temperature and reporting discrepancies to the Hotel Services Manager following food hygiene regulations.
- Waste Management: Remove rubbish, clinical waste, and sharps bins throughout the hospital, ensuring any waste bins are regularly emptied and secure.
- Medical Gas/Oxygen: Responsible for medical gas/oxygen readings and replacing.
About Us
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset, or South Gloucestershire.
Benefits
- Agenda for Change Salary
- Full NHS benefits
- 27+ days’ annual leave
- Participation in the NHS Pension Scheme
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Diversity and Inclusion
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners, and communities we serve.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
How to Apply
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mel Ritchings
- Job Title: Hotel Services Manager
- Email Address: melanie.ritchings@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 07824425870
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