Porter

1 week ago


Harlow, United Kingdom The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Full time

To provide an efficient and effective Pottering service, working in a self-motivated and professional manner at all times. To work well with all disciplines of staff and may be required to take direction from other professional staff from time to time.

A courteous and helpful approach to patients, visitors and staff is essential and a sensible and safe conscious approach to work is necessary at all times, as well as strict observance of the Trust's policies and procedure.

Distribution of supplies and items, post, pharmaceutical items including controlled drugs, bread, milk and food items to all wards and departments.

Deliver clean items of linen ensuring that the cages are taken to the designated locations and collect dirty linen from ward linen chutes, departments and outlying areas and transport to central area ready for collection.

Collect from wards and deliver to pathology all pathology specimens using the correct procedures. Deliver blood form pathology to wards and departments as required.

Clean trolleys and wheelchairs as required as per control of infection policy.

Collect/deliver medical records and x-rays as required.

Deliver/exchange medical gas cylinders from a central gas store to wards and departments as required and prepare cylinder for use.

Ensure that all equipment used is the day to day activities is cleaned an in good working order, reporting defects to Supervisor/Manager. Ensure that all clinical waste is removed from areas on a daily basis, liaise with external contactor on day-to-day issues and maintain documentation accordingly.

In the absence of the porter supervisor be responsible for undertaking their duties as required to ensure that the service is maintained.

Attend and assist colleagues with mopping up during the occurrence of floods.

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

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