Morning Porter

**Morning porter required
- To cover a 4 week contract but could be extended**
- ** Mon-Fri**:

- ** 6am-10am/11am**:

- ** Some weekends may be required**:

- ** £9.50p/h - Paid weekly**
- To assist in the provision of an integrated portering service to the Trust and commercial customers
- To ensure the needs of both the customer and the company are met within the agreed quantities and standard of quality. Key Responsibilities:

- Ensure laundry deliveries to the Hospital are received, checked and delivered to the appropriate area.
- Assess the daily linen requirements for all wards/departments in your care to ensure that agreed stock levels are maintained.
- Maintain cleanliness of laundry trolleys and ensure they are retained in the correct location.
- Seal used linen into laundry bags.
- Place daily orders to the processing facility for following days delivery.
- Follow work schedules to assist in the timely delivery of clean linen to wards and departments.
- Follow work schedules to assist in the collection of used linen from wards, departments and theatres.
- Complete and maintain accurate paperwork for the wards/departments in your care.
- Ensure emergency linen requests from any ward/department within normal working hours are delivered to the wards within agreed timescales.
- Ensure linen is sorted and arranged for collection by the driver at the correct times.
- Discrepancies in deliveries are reported as soon as possible

**Knowledge and Skills**:
Experience of working within a highly customer-focused service environment.

Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).

Ability to develop effective working relationships across all levels of management and staff

Attention to detail.

Flexible and able to react quickly to the needs of the customer & company

Self-motivated.

Well spoken, clarity of speech, friendliness of tone, articulate.

Patient, polite and courteous.

Flexibility to work unsocial hours

Experience is desirable but training will be offered