As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
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New Role Available, Up to £26.5k per annum + unsocial hours, 27 + 8 days annual leave, multitude of national discounts, and industry
leading pension!
Do you have experience as a team leader or supervisor in a customer facing environment? Would you like to make a difference to patient care
within the NHS? Do you have the commitment and drive to work in one of the busiest hospitals in the country?
We are currently recruiting a Portering & Waste Supervisor, to help us keep our hospitals moving and our patients served.
You will work autonomously and manage your own workload, acting for your Line Manager during Annual Leave, evenings, nights and weekends. You will lead with the support of management in instilling appropriate Trust Values and working practices into the portering team.
Your role will include, but is not limited to:
1. To manage porters role on a day to day basis.
2. Use the Health roster system to ensure all staff are paid correctly and annual leave sickness and other absences are entered on the system.
3. Liaise with portering management regarding the maintenance and repair of equipment used by portering staff. e.g. patient wheelchairs, patient trolleys.
4. Working with your team in tasks to provide a continuity of service.
5. React to emergency requests with speed, answering bleep or mobile phone promptly, undertaking the task yourself if necessary.
6. Liaising with Ward/Departmental Management and Staff, taking particular attention to the Trust Clinical Site Management Team on quality of service delivery.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.