Driver/porter

As a Driver-Porter for West London NHS Trust, you will work in a team of professionals that carry a wide range of duties to support an efficient service delivery to our service users, visitors and the Trust. This includes driving service users to and from appointments, delivery and collection of goods from various Trust sites and Portering tasks within the sites, i.e. medicines deliveries, site maintenance, internal moves of furniture and delivery of goods on-site.

Staff are required to take mandatory training and have a good understanding of manual handling and health and safety, Trust and departmental inductions will be provided.

**Transport Duties include**:
Complete a daily walk round and defect checks and completing the vehicle log sheets appropriately. Making sure all vehicles have fuel, water, oil, screen wash etc.

Ensure that any defects are reported to the Facilities Supervisor. Decommission any defective vehicles from service and liaise with the Facilities Supervisor to assess repairs needed. Any repairs and associated paperwork must be taken to Facilities Coordinator.

**Portering Duties**:
The lifting, handling, transportation of goods including food, beds bedding, newspapers, furniture and waste.

Provide a postal distribution service for staff and patients and where appropriate assisting in the Postroom to sort and process mail.

Maintenance of portering vehicles and equipment, ensuring weekly audit documentation is completed and any damage / defects are reported to the line manager.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.

**Post Title**: DRIVER / PORTER

**Department**: C E & F

**Responsible to**: Facilities Coordinator

**Accountable to**: Facilities Supervisor

**Key Relationships**: Facilities Coordinator, Portering Team, Security Team, Nursing Staff, Clinical Nurse Manager, Other Estates and Facilities Staff, Police and Visitors.

**Job Summary**:
To undertake a range of portering and driving duties and other associated tasks connected with the delivery of an efficient portering and transport service and business of the West London NHS Trust.