Porter UEC (Ward/Department based)

Job overview

Introduction

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a UEC SDEC porter band 2 within the Urgent & Emergency Care Department. The post can include weekend and out of hours.

There has never been a better time to join our hospital – we are a well-established Trust with a great history, constantly striving to improve. A forward-thinking recruitment philosophy creates fantastic opportunities for all our employees, and it is our aim to be the employer of choice within the region.

Overview

The Clinical Business Unit is seeking enthusiastic members of staff to join the Urgent & Emergency Care Team. We have a professional and dedicated team committed to providing a first-class service to our patients and clinical users.

We are a busy department working 24 hours a day across 7 days per week, and the successful candidate will be required to work 12.5 hour days and weekends on a rotational basis.

This is an opportunity for the successful candidate to develop their interpersonal skills and to further develop their experience in a supportive environment within a forward-thinking Trust.

Previous experience of working in a Healthcare environment is desirable but not essential as full training will be given.

Main duties of the job

To carry out a full range of portering duties within the hospital, which will include the efficient transfer of patients, transportation of equipment, ward/department-based furniture, pathology specimens, linen, and waste.

Respond to a Crash call, collecting the Defibrillator trolley and attending the incident. Call the Emergency Services as and when required. Respond to panic alarms.

Working for our organisation

We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see the attached Job Description and Person Spec for a full list of roles and responsibilities***

Person specification

Qualifications

• Good General Education
• NCQ Level 2 or equivalent level of knowledge/experience

• Health and Safety Level 2
• NVQ Level 3 in Portering or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Years Experience

• • Experience working in a hospital portering role

Skills, knowledge and competencies

• Basic keyboard skills
• Customer Care skills

• Experience of dealing with the general public and or patients

personal skills

• Team player.
• Smart appearance.

• Ability to use initiative/problem solving skills.

You can find more information on the Government website. Please review your eligibility and the eligibility of the role before submitting your application.