Bank Porter

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.

Shift times are 6am – 2pm, 6.30am – 2.30pm, 8am – 4pm, 10am – 6pm, 4pm – 10pm.

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.

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 carly.dack@spirehealthcare.com

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.