Job Title
ED Porter – George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Position Details
Fixed Term – 1 year
Salary: £24,465 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (13×11.5 hour shifts every 4 weeks; shift times 07:30‑20:00 and 11:30‑00:00)
Closing Date: 31 October 2025
Interview Date: 7 November 2025
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
Responsibilities
* The main duty of the post holder is to provide a portering service to the Emergency Department, support patient transfers to the wards and to carry out routine ADHOC duties – supporting with department deliveries.
* Liaising with the nurse in charge of the emergency department and operational teams.
* To provide a portering service to the Emergency Department: escort and convey patients by wheelchair, bed or trolley.
* Transfer patients to wards, X-rays, CT scans, ultrasound, MRI, and endoscopy.
* Assist with the movement of patients using clinical manual handling procedures including pat slides and log rolling techniques.
* Transfer various specimens of blood to the pathology department.
* Transport and collect pathology specimens, containers and units of blood ensuring records of collection are logged.
* Deliver and collect prescriptions from pharmacy.
* Fetch blood from blood bank.
* Assist in cardiac arrests.
* Transport records to wards with patients on transfers.
* Report any suspicious incidents and assist where necessary.
* Support nurse in charge and operational team where required.
* Attend mandatory training courses: moving and handling, resuscitation, infection control, clinical governance, fire training, dealing with conflict training, pat slide training, and log roll training.
* Operate a communications device to keep in touch with other staff in the department.
* Assist with pat slides in the department, wards and CYT.
* Assist with log roles in the department and CT.
Shift Pattern
13×11.5 hour shifts every 4 weeks. Shift times 07:30‑20:00 and 11:30‑00:00.
Benefits
On‑site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in‑house course learning directory, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on‑site parking.
Additional Information
Armed Forces Community – contact for further details.
For further details or informal visits, contact: Helen Smitham, Assistant Service Manager, email: helen.smitham@geh.nhs.uk, Tel: 024 7686 5003.
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