Porter

1 month ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Nuffield Health Full time

HEAD OFFICE
Porter

Porter

Cambridge Hospital | Maintenance | Permanent Contract | Full Time | incl. Weekends

£10.04 an hour

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is Britain’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation. Join us as a Porter in our Cambridge Hospital and play your part in building a healthier nation.

As an individual with experience in a similar role or the right aptitude, you will be working within a professional committed team with specific duties that ensures extremely high standards of which is appreciated by our customers.

The Opportunity

You will play a key part in keeping our hospital operational activities moving smoothly (which is a priority for us). Once trained and competent as our Porter you will help us to create a safe and pleasant environment for customers and your peers. We will make sure you have the best training and development opportunities and you will be involved in a variety of new initiatives being implemented to help bring the best out of you.

Your role will be varied, each day never the same, interacting with a wide range of people that will make your job very interesting. Our goal is to give you job satisfaction and provide a healthy, safe working environment that you enjoy being in.

**The Role**:
Assisting with the moving of patients around the hospital on beds and wheel chairs.

Carrying out routine pathology, samples and similar collections

Ensuring storage areas are maintained, cleaned and tidy

Helping to mitigate risk and sustain a good quality of décor by identifying building fabric areas in need of repair

Transporting of equipment from one area to another

Occasional use of simple tools and equipment

Helping with deliveries & their drivers

Supporting clinical staff as required

Following our Health and Safety policies and procedures, ensuring that the location is tidy, pleasant, and safe for patients

Sweeping of leaves in Autumn months to keep paths clear

Collecting bulk linen to top up the department stock around the hospital

Collecting general/clinical waste and disposing of in the correct manor

The Person

As an individual with experience in a similar role, or the right aptitude you will:
Take pride in your work

Be committed and passionate

Have good attention to detail

Be a good listener

Provide general assistance and support as part of a professional team

Care about our customers, so that you can organise your own work and plan your time to make sure Porterage activities never gets in the way of customer's experience.

Have good communication skills with a good basic level of English language (this will come in handy when you are working in a team with your colleagues, and also when you are interacting with our customers)

Possess good customer service skills, as this is a customer facing role

Be looking for development opportunities

Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital

Our state-of-the-art hospital, is central Cambridge’s premium private hospital, boasting an Outstanding CQC score and offer a full range of medical and surgical specialties. With expertise in Cancer care and Cancer surgery, Orthopaedic surgery (including robotic surgery), Neurosurgery, Cardiology as well as specialist Paediatric services. Recently having secured a partnership with the Royal Papworth NHS (National Health Service) Trust we will see growth in our Cardiology services and aim to expand our current speciality in this field.

Backed by the latest diagnostic imaging facilities including wide bore MRI and CT scanning, we offer immediate assessment and expert diagnosis. Hospital facilities include 3 state of the art digital theatres, 32 beds, Surgical Day Case theatre/endoscopy suite, Surgical Day PODs, private consultation rooms, close monitoring units, Chemotherapy suite, on-site registered pharmacy, Diagnostic scanning unit and a Pathology laboratory.

It starts with you.


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