Porter LRI | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,465 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Leicester, LE15WW |
| Cwmni: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7615884/358-7615884-EF |
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We are currently looking for porters in the Estates and Facilities Directorate, based at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, the Glenfield Hospital, and the Leicester General Hospital
The portering service is a 24 hour service including nights and weekends, and is essential to the smooth running of a hospital. Porters keep everything moving, from patients to parcels!
We are looking for an innovative individual with the drive and ambition to work with a group of staff within the department. The successful candidate will need the passion and drive to motivate individuals to deliver excellent patient care. The University Hospitals of Leicester trust is one of the busiest in the UK and the candidates who apply for this position must have the ability to work in a high pressured and fast paced environment.
Portering is a wide ranging job with many facets. If you are based in patient portering you would be expected to transport patients on wheelchairs, beds, and trollies, from one department to another. We also collect and deliver units of blood, gas cylinders, and other items.
Working from the post room involves franking mail, collecting and delivering post around the hospital, and sorting post for collection.
If you're based in the linen room, you'll be filling trollies with clean linen to be sent to the wards, as well as dealing with curtain changes and uniform orders.
The other department is waste, this requires driving electric vehicles, collecting and delivering large bins to each area, and segregating and preparing them for collection.
Patient care is our primary objective and it is essential that you understand the importance of working to a high standard that meets the requirements of the Trust.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
Training:
• Be competent to use after training to use electronic device specific to the role.
• To have a good knowledge and understanding of the requirements of the service prior to and following training
• Maintaining the necessary skills and undertaking the relevant training to fulfil your role and your personal development.
• Complete and update Trust Mandatory Training
Waste Handling
Infection Prevention Control
Moving and Handling
Infection Prevention Control
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
Observing;
• Trust policies and processes
• Local processes
Key Working Relationships;
• Work Colleagues throughout the trust
• Portering supervisors and portering Coordinator
• Portering Manager
• Ward and Department Clinical teams
• Patients and General Public
Key Result Areas
• Display a high standard of personal hygiene and presentation and demonstrate good hygiene practices.
• Observe confidentiality of patients and employing trusts business at all times.
• Communicate and liaise effectively with Work Colleagues, Managers and with Clinical Teams accordance with Trust values.
• Working flexibly within the base or mobile around the site as part of a team
• Having and maintaining good relationships and communications with the Customer Service Centre working together to provide a high quality service.
Patient/Customer Service
• Ensuring that consistently a high standard of customer service is delivered at all times
General Duties
Your role will involve working within a team to provide a high quality Portering Service which offers a timely reactive and pro-active service for the movement of patients, materials and equipment within the site. You will also undertake various other specified support and ancillary tasks to meet the needs of the service.
• Respond to tasks allocated through tasks management system using hand held/radios
• Conveyance and movement of patients by wheelchair, trolley, bed etc. including assisting clinical staff
• To collect and clean wheelchairs trolley & beds
• Delivery clean linen to all wards using trolleys/ electric vehicles/tugs
• Collect dirty linen from all wards & departments using trolleys/electric vehicle/tugs
• General duties, e.g. delivery of beds, materials/equipment and all other removal requests that arise in the course of the day’s duties
• Movement of deceased persons complying Trust Policies and Procedure
• To ensure all waste is collected, transported and disposed of in accordance with Trust Policies and procedures and current national legislation.
• Blood bank – transportation of blood and blood products to and from Pathology Department
• Delivery/collection of medical notes from all wards and departments
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025