Theatre Porters

An opportunity has arisen to join our team of Theatre Porters at Wansbeck General Hospital. You will work as part of a small team supporting the running of the operating theatres.

Duties include transporting equipment and instruments between departments, moving and transferring patients, waste management, stores and the transportation of specimens etc.

You will need to be flexible and reliable in your approach to work and compassionate during patient contact. You will also need to be fit enough to deal with this physically demanding role.

The post involves 7 day working.

To assist in the direction of patients and visitors.
The conveyance and movement of patients.
The collection and delivery of pharmacy and sign for drugs, linen, refuse, clinical waste, trolleys, stores, beds, equipment and records to designated areas.
Reception and movement of medical gas cylinders within Health And Safety guidelines.
To assist in the training of all new support workers and Portering staff.
Changing medical gas cylinders and manifolds.
Maintenance of equipment.
Deliver to mortuary.
Transport clinical waste, rubbish etc.

Putting SASD trays away.
Assisting with the movement of patients inside theatres and recovery.
Assist in moving equipment.
Putting away stores in appropriate area.
Place sealed clinical waste bags into the clinical waste dispenser using appropriate protective gloves and apron where appropriate.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE VACANCIES PRIOR TO THE ADVERTISED CLOSING DATE WHEN WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF SUFFICIENT APPLICATIONS

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

The provision of a high quality, efficient patient orientated service and compliance with the Trust Patient Confidentiality Policy.

Working on a rotational basis both inside and outside the theatre completing duties as necessary.