Employer: Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Theatre Porter
NHS AfC: Band 2
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).
The Northumbria Way means for you: extensive staff health and well-being programme, support and connection through Staff Network groups, flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave and pension scheme, access to lease car and home electronics scheme, opportunities to improve professional development, on-site nursery places, and access to savings scheme.
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme
* Support and connection through Staff Network groups
* Flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme
* Opportunities to improve professional development
* On-site nursery places
* Access to savings scheme
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our teams deliver care from hospitals, community venues, and people’s homes.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join our team of Theatre Porters at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. You will work as part of a small team supporting the running of the operating theatres.
Duties include transporting equipment and instruments, moving and transferring patients, waste management, stores, and the transportation of specimens. You will need to be flexible, reliable, and compassionate.
The post involves 7 days working, covering the hours of 08.00-20.30. Experience in healthcare is desirable but not essential as full training will be given to the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
To assist in the direction of patients and visitors, conveyance and movement of patients, collection and delivery of pharmacy and sign for drugs, linen, refuse, clinical waste, trolleys, stores, beds, equipment, and records to designated areas.
Inside Duties: putting SASD trays away, assisting with the movement of patients inside theatres and recovery, assisting in moving equipment, putting away stores, and placing sealed clinical waste bags into the clinical waste dispenser.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Effective communication skills both written and verbal
* NVQ 2 training course
Experience
* Experience working within a healthcare role
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal, and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, and we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme.
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