Job Overview
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We are currently looking to recruit a Porter to support and assist the Fracture Clinic, Plaster Room and General Out-Patients Departments.
The hours are 37.5 per week. Working Monday to Friday, 09:00hrs to 17:30hrs (excluding Bank Holidays) to cover the core opening hours of the departments. Hours can be slightly flexible and can be discussed with the successful candidates shortlisted for the interview.
If you are looking for a challenging role which offers variety and job satisfaction, then look no further and apply now to join our team.
Main duties of the job
Provide a highly professional and customer focussed service to all patients, staff and visitors in the Fracture Clinic, Plaster Room and Out-Patient departments based at Frimley Park Hospital. You will be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team with a friendly and efficient manner, whilst maintaining high standards of patient care.
To transport patients to different departments within the hospital in a timely and safe, courteous manner. You will be a point of contact to all visitors to the departments and assist in directing them as required.
You will also be required to perform non-patient related jobs, e.g. CSSD deliveries and collections; Postal deliveries and collections; Furniture moves; Medical gas cylinder exchanges; Attend emergency calls within the Out-Patient setting to ensure all essential equipment is available; Deliver Pathology samples to the lab; Deliver dirty and collect clean, Urology and ENT scopes twice daily; to name but a few.
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Provide a highly professional and customer focussed service to all patients, staff and visitors in the Fracture Clinic, Plaster Room and Out-Patient departments based at Frimley Park Hospital. You will be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team with a friendly and efficient manner, whilst maintaining high standards of patient care.
To transport patients to different departments within the hospital in a timely and safe, courteous manner. You will be a point of contact to all visitors to the departments and assist in directing them as required.
You will also be required to perform non-patient related jobs, e.g. CSSD deliveries and collections; Postal deliveries and collections; Furniture moves; Medical gas cylinder exchanges; Attend emergency calls within the Out-Patient setting to ensure all essential equipment is available; Deliver Pathology samples to the lab; Deliver dirty and collect clean, Urology and ENT scopes twice daily; to name but a few.
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good education to GCSE standard or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working within a team as well as the ability to work alone
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a similar role
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills and the ability to communicate clearly, both verbally, and in writing in the English language.
- Flexible approach to work with the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervision.
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Due to the nature of the role, the post holder must be physically fit and have the ability to move and lift heavy objects e.g. beds, wheelchairs, furniture. Often within confined spaces.
Desirable criteria
- Able to adapt to the service requirements and work under pressure.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours 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.
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