Bank Porter

Duties and Responsibilities

As a Hospital Porter, you will play an important role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the hospital and supporting the delivery of exceptional patient care.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Transporting patients safely and professionally throughout the hospital.
• Assisting clinical teams with patient transfers to and from wards, theatres and diagnostic departments.
• Moving equipment, medical supplies and stock as required.
• Ensuring wheelchairs, trolleys and other equipment are available, clean and maintained.
• Responding promptly to porter requests across the hospital.
• Providing a welcoming, courteous and professional service to patients, visitors and colleagues.
• Adhering to all health and safety, infection prevention and control, and manual handling procedures.
• Maintaining patient dignity, privacy and confidentiality at all times.

Who We're Looking For

• Previous porter, healthcare, customer service, facilities or similar experience is desirable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A professional, caring and compassionate approach.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Good level of physical fitness, with the ability to undertake manual handling duties safely.
• Understanding of health and safety requirements.
• Flexible and reliable approach to work.
• Commitment to delivering excellent customer service and patient care.

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly.
• Competitive hourly rates.
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension.
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts.
• Smart spending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via Spire for You.
• Wellbeing Centre access via Spire for You.
• Free uniform.
• Free DBS.
• Full induction and mandatory training.
• Opportunities for further development and progression into permanent roles.
• Support and guidance throughout your recruitment journey from Spire's specialist Resourcing Team.

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees' wellbeing through work-life balance, ongoing development, support and reward.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Our people are our difference. It's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, operating 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. We provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operate a network of private GPs and deliver workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients.

Closing Date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.