Bank Porter

DSFS Ltd are looking to recruit 4 Porters on zero hour bank contracts, to work within the portering department based at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

The duties include conducting a wide variety of portering tasks, you will be expected to work a shift pattern covering 24 hours a day / 7 days a week including weekends.

Interview date to be confirmed

Being a Porter will involve any general portering duties including patient moves, linen transportation, furniture moves, re-cycling and waste collection.

The nature of this work requires a significant amount of walking between tasks throughout the shift and there is a physical element to all operations.

Full training will be given for this post, which will initially require full time working for a period of 4 weeks covering all 24 hour 7 day shift patterns, attendance of regular refresher training courses is also a mandatory requirement.

Good interpersonal skills are required for interacting with patients and basic computer skills are essential for logging all tasks on a central database, for which full training will be given.

An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 700 staff in Facilities, Estates, Procurement, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible and proactive.

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments section on this page. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that are required for the role.