Bank Porter

Cheltenham Hospital | Properties and Facilities | Bank | Part Time |

£12.88 per hour

Nuffield Health is Britain’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation. Join us as a Porter in our Cheltenham Hospital and play your part in building a healthier nation.

As an individual with experience in a similar role or the right aptitude, you will be working within a professional committed team with specific duties that ensures extremely high standards of which is appreciated by our customers.

You will play a key part in keeping our hospital operational activities moving smoothly (which is a priority for us). Once trained and competent as our Porter, you will help us to create a safe and pleasant environment for customers and your peers.

We will make sure you have the best training and development opportunities, and you will be involved in a variety of new initiatives being implemented to help bring the best out of you.

Your role will be varied, each day never the same, interacting with a wide range of people that will make your job very interesting. Our goal is to give you job satisfaction and provide a healthy, safe working environment that you enjoy being in. 

The Role:

• When necessary, to receipt the delivery of, handling, storage and renewal of medical gas cylinders in line with health and safety guidelines.
• Check medical gas store levels, alarms and advise Pharmacy on re-   ordering.
• Dispense Liquid Nitrogen up to three times a week to various Outpatient Clinics
• Provide a courier service for pathology samples and similar collections.
• Collect and deliver equipment to other local hospitals when required.
• Ensuring storage areas are maintained, cleaned and tidy.
• Helping to mitigate risk and sustain a good quality of décor by identifying building fabric areas in need of repair.
• Transporting of equipment from one area to another.
• Occasional use of simple tools and equipment.
• Helping with deliveries & their drivers.
• Supporting clinical staff as required.
• Maintaining Health and Safety requirements for the Ward Rooms.
• Following our Health and Safety policies and procedures, ensuring that the location is tidy, pleasant, and safe for patients.
• Collecting bulk linen to top up the department stock around the hospital.
• Remove all general waste and dirty laundry in accordance with policies and procedures
• Collect and dispose of clinical waste in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Set up conference rooms and assist in office moves, as requested.
• Clean and prepare areas as directed and following the required policies and procedures.
• When fire alarms are activated, to support the early recognition of activation area and support the evacuation.
• Manage and maintain the Hospital Car.

As an individual, you will have experience in a similar role, and the right aptitude. You will:

• Take pride in your work.
• Be committed and passionate.
• Have good attention to detail.
• Be a good listener.
• Provide general assistance and support as part of a professional team.
• Care about our customers, so that you can organize your own work and plan your time to make sure Porterage activities never gets in the way of customer's experience.
• Have good communication skills with a good basic level of English language (this will come in handy when you are working in a team with your colleagues, and also when you are interacting with our customers).
• Possess good customer service skills, as this is a customer facing role.
• Be looking for development opportunities. 

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.   

However due to current workload , we are able to offer regular bank hours each week, anything up to 37.5 hours  (0800 – 1600) Mon – Fri.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.