Porter - Working Over Adults and Children

7 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job Purpose

To provide a transport service to meet the needs of the wards and departments and to ensure that medical records, materials and equipment are safely and appropriately transferred around the hospital.

To direct patients, staff and visitors to all areas of the hospital.

To escort patients between departments, wards, building

At Sodexo our Portering team are vital to making sure that we provide a high-quality service for our colleagues and visitors. To provide this great service, we have a talented team behind us, and currently have a vacancy for a Porter to join us

You will be responsible for managing your workload and that of your team, with a focus on ensuring a strict daily schedule is followed. You will identify and facilitate training needs for your team including moving and handling, ensuring you maintain a clean, hygienic environment.

Accountabilities

To transfer patients in a safe and appropriate manner to and from the wards and departments via means of walking, wheelchair, stretcher or beds.

To convey blood specimens in a safe manner from wards/departments to Pathology department.

Conveyance of patient notes and x-rays to and from wards/departments.

Removal of deceased bodies from wards/departments to the mortuary in a safe and dignified manner and to assist in viewing in the absence of the mortuary technician.

To accept coroners cases into the mortuary in the absence of the mortuary technician

Conveyance of deceased patients from ambulance to the mortuary.

To replace medical gasses where necessary on wards/departments for the requirements of patients within the contracted hours.

To assist in the transfer of seriously injured patients from the ambulance/helicopter to the A & E department.

To use the designated blood tracking system to give a more traceable structure for the benefit of both the patient and the department.

To help distribute drugs from pharmacy to wards/departments.

To help transport, where specifically requested, in a safe manner patients from wards to theatres and vice versa.

Assisting patients to be pat-slid across from trolleys to the bed with assistance from the nursing staff.

To attend emergency incidents and support clinical staff in the event of cardiac arrests, major haemorrhage activations, fire alarm activations and major incidents.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

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We’re looking forward to hearing from you



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