Portering Supervisor – Manchester Central Hospital
* Location: Manchester Central Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL
The role is to oversee a skilled portering team, ensuring safe and reliable transport services across the hospital, facilitating the smooth movement of records, materials and equipment to support clinical services.
What you'll do:
* Monitor and manage the Hive system to ensure timely completion of all portering jobs.
* Allocate work and responsibilities to portering staff, ensuring proper use and return of handheld devices.
* Coordinate staff training, including moving and handling, and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
* Manage staff scheduling, annual leave, sickness absence and conduct performance appraisals.
* Communicate effectively with healthcare and support staff to resolve issues and coordinate portering services.
* Ensure all portering duties are performed in line with Trust policies, including incident reporting and compliance.
* Provide emergency response coordination during incidents such as cardiac arrests, fires and other critical situations.
What you bring:
* Good communication skills to enable communication with colleagues, patients and clients regarding job duties.
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Good level of customer care.
* Experience of working in a healthcare environment (desirable).
* Good understanding of health and safety and manual handling practices.
* Ability to respond constructively and professionally to unpredictable situations.
* Attend mandatory induction and health and safety related training and all other required training.
What we offer:
* Mental health and wellbeing resources.
* Employee Assistance Programme (including financial/legal advice and personal support).
* Free health and wellbeing app with 24/7 virtual GP access.
* Discounts on high street brands for you and your family.
* Salary finance tools and financial wellbeing resources.
* Retirement savings plan and life insurance.
* Full training and protective uniform provided.
* Opportunities to gain experience through learning and development.
* Cycle to Work scheme and volunteering opportunities.
* Flexible working and a dynamic team environment.
* Competitive pay.
Equality and diversity statement:
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and encouraging applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are a Disability Confident Leader employer and run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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