Bank Porter

Job Description

Bank Porter | Southend | Ad hoc shifts | Monday - Saturday

Spire Wellesley Hospital are looking for a Bank Porter to join our fantastic team. Working a mixture of AM, PM shifts Monday to Saturday. There may be some Sunday work.

Spire Wellesley Hospital has 3 Theatres (2 laminar flow) and an endoscopy unit, a 33 bedded Surgical Ward covering a wide variety of specialties including Orthopaedics, Bariatrics, General Surgery, Vascular, Plastics, Gynae, Ophthalmology, Spinal, Urology, ENT.

Job Purpose

To provide the highest standards of personal service to patients and staff in all departments and to provide a highly efficient and courteous portering and distribution service throughout the hospital.

Overall Responsibilities

• To transfer, transport and guide patients safely around the hospital, as required, in a caring, sympathetic and professional manner
• To collect and deliver clean and dirty linen
• To collect and dispose of refuse, both domestic and clinical where full infection control training will be provided.
• Assist in mail sorting, franking mail as required.
• To assist with the general security of the hospital and associated grounds
• To deliver flowers and newspapers
• To arrange furniture and equipment
• To provide general assistance in all stores and distributive activities
• To assist in the receipt, checking, storage and distribution of goods throughout the hospital.
• To undertake driving duties as required.
• To undertake reception/switchboard duties as required
• To ensure the maintenance of good working relationships, communications and team work in the hospital and within the department.
• To ensure that all duties are undertaken safely.
• Carry out any other duty that reasonably falls within the general nature and level of responsibility of the post.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• Friendly, approachable and customer focused manner
• Able to work alone or in a team
• This is a physically demanding role, please take this into consideration when submitting your application
  
  

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
  
  

Please see the attached benefits leaflet for more information.

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Carly Dack on [email protected]

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

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

About Us

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.

We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.

About The Team

Spire Wellesley Hospital takes pride in providing a high standard of care and some of the latest medical technology. With a full multidisciplinary medical team, you can get fast access to consultations with specialists. We offer a wide range of treatments that are personalised to you and as much aftercare as you clinically need.