Porter

Working hours 37.5 hours per week

To provide support and assistance to Healthcare Professionals within all areas of the Trust.

The role will be to work under the direction of the Portering Chargehand and will cover a wide range of internal duties which will include transporting patients; specimens; meal trollies; linen; post; medical records and other items.

We ask all employees to be flexible in their role, to always ensure we are delivering Safe, Kind and Effective care.

As part of the on-going organisational changes that are taking place within the Facilities Department we are looking to recruit Porters to join our hard working Team.

The post holder will work closely with the Chargehand Porter/Assistant Facilities Managers and you will already have experience of dealing with the public, together with excellent communication skills.

Applicants must be able to lift, carry, handle and transport goods within the hospital, be trustworthy and reliable and ensure complete confidentiality of information held or regarding patients and hospital personnel.

This role requires a significant amount of walking and transferring patients around the Trust site.

Applicants will be trained for all aspects of the role and gain understanding of all the tasks involved.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.