Bank Porter
Job summary
DSFS Ltd are looking to recruit 5 Porters on zero hour bank contracts, to work within the portering department based at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
The duties include conducting a wide variety of portering tasks, you will be expected to work a shift pattern covering 24 hours a day / 7 days a week including weekends.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Main duties of the job
Being a Porter will involve any general portering duties including patient moves, linen transportation, furniture moves, re-cycling and waste collection.
The nature of this work requires a significant amount of walking between tasks throughout the shift and there is a physical element to all operations.
Full training will be given for this post, which will initially require full time working for a period of 4 weeks covering all 24 hour 7 day shift patterns, attendance of regular refresher training courses is also a mandatory requirement.
Good interpersonal skills are required for interacting with patients and basic computer skills are essential for logging all tasks on a central database, for which full training will be given.
A full driving license is required for waste collection, for any disabled candidates alternative arrangements may be arranged.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments section on this page. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that are required for the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- Manual Handling Techniques
Experience
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Adaptable to meet service needs
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work as a team
- Worked within a hospital environment
Skills and Knowledge
- Ability to multi task
- Computer and keyboard skills
- Full UK driving licence for operating the waste collection vehicle*
Personal Attributes
- Physically capable of handling wheeled waste containers and furniture waste. For disabled applicants alternative arrangements can be made if required
- Adaptable to meet service needs
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
DSFS - Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Top Road
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/