Porter

We have an opportunity to carry out planned and reactive tasks involving the movement of patients and a range of goods and equipment efficiently and effectively ensuring the safety and consideration of patients, staff, visitors and all users of NHS Lanarkshire services are adhered to. You will control car parks across the site identifying and taking action identified by NHS Lanarkshire e.g. stickering unauthorised/ inappropriately parked vehicles. You will also work alongside and support new staff in the working environment.

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO DO THE JOB
- Required to undertake on-the-job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked), to achieve full competency across a range of duties.
- Required to undertake Prevention, Assessment & Management of Violence & Aggression (PaMOVA) training levels 1 and 2
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety including participation in risk-assessing individual tasks
- Undertake mandatory Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) Standards
- Undertake NHS Lanarkshire compulsory training
- Undertake and complete NHSS Portering Services Workbook
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care-experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.