Porter

**Job Purpose**

To carry out planned and reactive tasks involving the movement of patients and a range of goods and equipment efficiently and effectively ensuring the safety and consideration of patients, staff, visitors and all users of NHS Lanarkshire services are adhered to. This role will also include the control of car parks across the site indentifying and taking action indentified by NHS Lanarkshire, e.g. stickering unauthorised/inappropriately parked vehicles and to work alongside and support new staff in the working environment.

**Knowledge, Training and/or Experience required to do the job**
- Required to undertake on the job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked), to achieve full competency across a range of duties
- Required to undertake Prevention, Assessment & Management of Violence & Aggression (PaMOVA) training level 1 and 2
- Working knowledge Health & Safety including participation in risk assessing individual tasks
- Undertake mandatory Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) Standards
- Undertake NHS Lanarkshire compulsory training
- Undertake and complete NHSS Portering Services Workbook
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence

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