Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
This is an excellent opportunity for a Healthcare Porter to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients' future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
As a healthcare porter you will provide a high standard of domestic and general household duties within the prison for patients with healthcare needs. You will be required to move around the prison each day improving enablement to healthcare appointments.
Your duties will include keeping all areas of healthcare clean and maintained (ie clinic rooms, tables, trolleys, etc), effective stock control for equipment and replenishing consumables, and support the clinical team when required. You will be responsible for ensuring emergency equipment and bags are replenished, managing equipment and delivering movement slips to the prison population.
Job responsibilities
* Provide a housekeeping service within the prison healthcare areas.
* Wipe down clinic rooms, tables, trolleys, and work surfaces.
* Maintain healthcare areas.
* Supply and replenish consumables (paper towels, toilet rolls, soap, etc).
* Follow standard operational procedures (health, hygiene, securing and locking doors).
* Implement IPC procedures.
* Maintain appropriate stock levels for essential and non-essential equipment.
* Move and handle equipment.
* Check emergency equipment and bags.
* Check fridge temperature.
* Appropriate management of equipment.
* Support the clinical team when required.
* Deliver movement slips to prison population.
* Support health promotion initiatives.
* Organise work plan prioritising own workload to ensure all daily duties are carried out.
* Answer telephone calls.
* Assist patients when appropriate in relation to housekeeping services.
* Undertake surveys/audits necessary to own work.
Experience
* Previous experience as a housekeeper, cleaner or porter.
* Experience in a healthcare setting.
Skills
* Good interpersonal skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£27,272 a year PER ANNUM RECRUITMENT & RETENTION INCENTIVE INCLUDED
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