Hospital Porter Location: Great Western Hospital, Swindon, SN3 6BB Salary: £12.51per hour days Night and Weekend pay enhancements Schedule: Full time - 38.5 hours per week, 6-month Fixed term contract, Mixture of days and Nights 4 on 4 off 12-hour shifts. Ready to impact a better future? As a Hospital Porter in our Healthcare team, you’ll support colleagues and patients by helping to keep the hospital running smoothly through safe, dignified and efficient patient and equipment movement. Your work will have a direct positive impact on patient experience and help create a safer, calmer environment for everyone on site. Every day, you’ll contribute to a vital service that supports the running of Great Western Hospital. You’ll help ensure patients, equipment and essential items reach the right place at the right time, supporting clinical teams and helping the hospital deliver safe, high‑quality care to its community. What you’ll do as a Hospital Porter You’ll be entrusted to: Transport patients safely and respectfully between wards, departments and clinical areas using wheelchairs, trolleys, beds or walking support when required. Move equipment and furniture across the site to support hospital operations, ensuring correct storage, cleanliness and safe use. Carry out non‑patient portering tasks including transporting medical specimens, pharmaceutical products, blood products, medical gases and confidential medical records. Support waste management by safely moving and disposing of clinical, general, confidential, sharps and bulky waste in line with infection control procedures. Handle mail, goods and materials, ensuring secure and efficient distribution across the hospital. Follow all health, safety and infection‑control procedures, reporting any faults, incidents or hazards promptly and accurately. Does this sound like you? You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have: Empathy, a helpful and cooperative manner and the ability to support patients with dignity and care. Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work well independently and as part of a team. Experience working in a manual‑handling or customer‑facing role. The physical ability to meet the demands of a busy hospital environment, including pushing, pulling and long periods of standing. Vetting and checks: An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role. 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What we offer Salary: Competitive salaries with annual reviews Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme Holidays: 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays Training and development: We offer a wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression Wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, BUPA Anytime Healthline, wellbeing app, simply health cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community Charity: Support a charity or organisation with a paid volunteering day each year. You can also choose to donate to your favourite charity tax-free, through our Payroll Giving Scheme Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today. About Serco At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone. By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. Apply Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. 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