Bank Porter

We currently have an opportunity for Bank Porters within the Facilities Directorate, based at Grimsby General Hospital
Working in a busy acute hospital you will be required to undertake a range of duties in the provision of portering services, both planned and reactive.

Your role will assist the service in providing an efficient, flexible and customer focused portering service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week across all sites, which will provide a comprehensive, planned and reactive Portering Service that is reliable, helpful, efficient and responsive to the needs of Patients, Trust staff and visitors.

You will accept and undertake work allocated through the task management system using a hand held device, which will involve such tasks as patient movement, distribution, stores, furniture, equipment, pharmacy, meals, pathology items, blood products, waste, movement of deceased, confidential waste, post and laundry around the Hospital site as required.

The Service will also support any Trust emergencies, incidents or event where required supporting the contingency and operation of the Hospital.

You will be required to work closely with your team and provide feedback which will assist in improving and developing the service via team meetings.

We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Essential
- Basic Numeracy & Literacy Skills

Desirable
- Driving License
- Previous driving duties
- Experience of the NHS or a caring environment
- Basic car Maintenance

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.