General Porter

The Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have another opportunity
which has arisen within the Facilities Directorate for a full time General
Porter to join our dedicated facilities team in portering. To provide an efficient, effective and fully comprehensive portering service across
Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury.

The full time hours are 37.5 per week, based on rostered shift patterns.

We are looking for lively and enthusiastic individuals that have excellent
interpersonal and communication skills who are well motivated and
hardworking and able to work as part of our team.

Previous experience of working within a healthcare environment would be
advantageous but not essential as training will be provided.

The General Porter will be a multi-skilled person working with a team. To be
responsible for maintaining a comprehensive professional and responsive
high quality porter service to patients, staff, visitors and all service users. To
undertake the movement of patients, equipment, documentation, linen,
waste etc. in an efficient and safe manner. Maintain a clean and safe
environment in accordance with the specification and be responsive to
service needs as they arise and constantly seek to improve the productivity
and quality of the service.

Undertake necessary duties to ensure that an efficient portering service is
maintained. These duties will be carried out both in patient and non-patient
environments.

All work must be undertaken in line with Health and Safety, Infection
Prevention, Security and all Trust Policy and Procedures.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work hard to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics. MTW also has active Disability, LGBT+ and Cultural Ethnic Minorities Networks to bring staff together and in act positive change