Job summary
- Main area
- Porter/housekeeper Nights
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (12 hour shift pattern)
- Job ref
- 151-DV-159
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- camberley
- Salary
- £23,575 per annum INCL HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/07/2024 23:59
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Theatre Porter/Housekeeper -Nights
Band 2
Job overview
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health. Whether you want to broaden your expertise, strengthen your skills or make the move into management. It’s one of the reasons our staff consistently rate us among the best places to work in the NHS.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a
Front line patient care role.
The ideal candidate will have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be competent in the use of IT systems. You will also be willing to work hard in a team, as well as confident to carry out individual duties. You will be interacting with a high number of patients each day, playing a vital part in making their stay as comfortable as possible and raising spirits with a friendly and compassionate service.
Main duties of the job
Collection of patients pre operatively.
Transporting of patients between departments by means of bed, wheelchair or trolley, ensuring that the transportation is carried out in a safe and courteous manner.
To assist with the positioning, lifting and handling of patients, within the peri operative environment, under the direction of the theatre staff. To assist with the positioning of equipment, within the peri operative environment, under the direction of the theatre staff.
Transport equipment between departments as per clinical requirement. Assist in the care and transport of specimens, to and from the laboratoryfollowing the strict guidelines laid down by the Trust.
Empty HSDU transport trolley of sterile instrument packs and supplementries into ‘clean’ storage area.
To collect and return blood and blood products from the blood bank ( training is provided.)
To stock and clean patient trolleys daily within the peri operative environment.
Medical gas cylinders to be checked and changed at back and front of theatres daily and prepared for use as per guidelines.
To aid in the removal of clinical waste. Removal of nuclear waste appropriately, within a specified time frame.
Maintaining storage area for intravenous fluids. Collect and prepare, bed store beds for patient use. Prepare pressure relieving mattresses as required.
NIGHT HOUSEKEEPING RESPONSIBILITIES
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
On a typical day/night as a Porter you can expect to transport patients around the site, , collect and deliver essential supplies and samples, respond to any emergency situations that may arise.
Due to the nature of the role, you will be required to adhere to departmental standards and health and safety regulations. You will also act at all times in a manner that upholds the Trust’s values, working as part of a team to ensure efficiency and excellent customer care.
As part of the recruitment process you will complete a Maths and English assessment, in order to progress to interview you will need to pass this test.
As a full-time member of staff you will work 37.5 hours a week on a rota shift pattern . . Shift patterns are: 07:30 – 19:30, one Saturday or Sunday in a month.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Standard Education level Be willing to participate in training.
- Understanding of responsibility of a porter
- Able to understand simple instructions and communicate effectively to others. lity to work under pressure within the team. Flexible, adaptable good timekeeping, hard working
- Ability to work under pressure within the team. Flexible, adaptable good timekeeping, hard working.
- Understanding of customer care.Basic knowledge of Health and Safety
Desirable criteria
- Basic health and safety certificate.
- Understanding of COSHH
- General knowledge of hygiene and cleanliness
- Previous experience in a healthcare environment.
SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES FOR ROLE
Essential criteria
- Able to understand simple instructions and communicate effectively to others.
- Ability to work under pressure within the team.
- Flexible, adaptable good timekeeping, hard working.
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Standard Education level Be willing to participate in training
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sandra Brunger
- Job title
- Supervisor to Porters and Housekeepers Theatres
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 030016131659
- Additional information
Contact :
Sandra Brunger on 030016131659/[email protected] for informal chat or any questions.
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