Porter Maintenance (Bank) in Cheltenham

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.

Requirements:

• 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.

It starts with you.

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