This supervisory post sits within the portering service at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where the post holder oversees porters and the equipment they use. Day-to-day work covers maintaining bleeps, radios and stores, checking site vehicles and completing daily inspection lists, with close working links to the Portering Manager. Staff management is central, including rota changes for absence, training, porter timekeeping and liaison with clinical teams. Transfusion blood collection knowledge and an NVQ 3 or equivalent are needed.
What the job involves
- Keep the service to the standard set in the agreed specification
- Identify where the service could improve and how to make those improvements
- Obtain required signatures for bleeps, radios and other equipment
- Maintain equipment such as bleeps and radios, and stores, in good order
- Contact the Portering Manager about equipment problems or when stores or equipment are needed
- Check site vehicles as the Portering Manager or Assistant Manager specifies
- Complete the vehicle inspection list daily
- Liaise closely with the Site Services Manager or Contract Manager
- Act independently when the Site Services Manager or Contract Manager is absent
- Understand the functions and roles of others that relate to own work
- Present a professional image at all times
What’s required
Qualifications
- NVQ 3 or equivalent
Experience
- Experience of staff supervision or management
- Amending rota shifts to cover absence
- Arranging and overseeing training
- Liaising with clinical staff on portering procedures
- Managing porter timekeeping, including signing in and out
- Keeping records and reporting movement of equipment and items from FM corridors and ward areas
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of policies
- Knowledge of equipment requirements
- Knowledge of transfusion blood collection procedures
- Computer literacy with basic Excel and OneDrive
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
