Imaging Porter

Applications are invited a full time permanent Imaging Porter to join our team at North Bristol NHS Trust. You will be working 37.5hrs per week, working various shifts supporting 24/7 service on a rotational basis.

This post is based at the Brunel Hospital, Southmead Hospital in the Imaging department

You will need to be educated to NVQ 2, GCSE C (including English and Maths) equivalent or have relevant experience. You must possess good communication skills both over the phone and face to face and have a flexible approach to work.

You will be required to take ownership of your own workload as well as being an integral part of a larger team. Being a team player is important in this role to ensure that department’s targets are met.

Your main duties will be to transport and assist patients to and from the Imaging department/wards in line with the service level agreements.

You will be required to assist with the transfer of patients onto the examination tables from chairs and beds as well as other portering duties as and when requested.

Please be aware that this is a physical role involving a vast amount of walking in the Brunel Building.

To work as part of the Imaging portering team, providing a responsive, high quality service to patients and staff within North Bristol NHS Trust.

Carrying out Imaging portering duties which will include the transfer of patients, delivery and collection of equipment, movement of confidential records, and delivery of supplies and specimens to the pathology department.

Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of what we do. Patients and carers are the ‘experts’ in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with a particular illness or condition. The patients’ experience of our services should guide the way we deliver services and influence how we engage with patients every day in our work.

All staff should communicate effectively in their day to day practice with patients and should support and enable patients/carers to make choices, changes and influence the way their treatment or care is provided. All staff, managers and Board members should work to promote effective patient, carer and public involvement in all elements of their work

We have a duty to involve, engage and consult with patients, carers and families about plans for health facilities and the provision of our services. North Bristol NHS Trust wholeheartedly embraces the principles of patient partnership and has made clear its commitment to involve patients in key aspects of its work, which will be further strengthened through becoming a Foundation Trust.
- Transport patients in a safe manner as required, via wheelchair, beds and trolleys.
- Escort, when necessary walking patients to and from wards and departments.
- Observe and maintain the comfort of the patient in their care at all times.
- Ensure that correct and safe systems of work are employed at all times with extra care shown to the safety of patients.
- Show care and attention to all patients especially those that are concerned and/or disadvantaged.
- Urgent transfer of critically ill patients between departments, wards and I.C.U
- You will at times work in extremely emotional circumstances where you will be expected to show understanding and sympathy.
- Transportation of patients and their personal possessions between wards and departments including collection of records, and assist in the administration of medical gases under supervised instruction from a clinically trained member of staff i.e. some patients will receive oxygen during transfer
- Collect and deliver post etc between departments.
- Undertake recognized checking procedure when collecting patients from wards and departments
- Assist in the transfer patients between Radiology couch and trolley or bed.
- Assist radiographers and nurses staff in the physical movement of patients i.e. to sit patients up/ lie them down for examinations.
- Delivery of specimens from Radiology to relevant pathology departments
- Carry out the collection of Radiology request forms on formal ward rounds or as necessary.
- Checking of all wheel chairs and trolleys used for roadworthiness and reporting any faults found to the appropriate department. Carrying out basic maintenance of these trolleys.
- Receiving and giving clear concise instructions with other members of the portering team and other departments.
- To be aware of the security requirements for special needs patients. Be able to liaise with wards and/or security to ensure the ongoing safety of ‘at risk’ persons. To be aware of possible security situations as they develop and inform the relevant department.
- The movement of furniture or other equipment as requested.
- Delivery and collection of expensive Radiology equipment between departments, wards, and theatre.
- Transfer of medical records, x-ray films and other confidential records throughout the site.
- Collection