Bank Porter | Spire Manchester Hospital | Manchester | Day / Night Shift Cover | Flexible working hours | £12.26 per hour + excellent benefits
Spire Manchester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Bank Night Porter to join our dynamic and experienced Portering team working on an as and when basis to help cover sickness and annual leave in our porter team.
Spire Manchester Hospital offers comprehensive private hospital services in a comfortable and relaxed environment.
We have 5 state of the art Theatres and modern Surgical and Day Care Wards covering all major surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology, plastics and medical patients amongst others.
Working Hours: shifts available - 06:30-14:00,10:00-18:00 - over a 7 day period
Contract type : Bank/Zero hours
As Porter, you will work as multi-skilled member of the team providing high level, quality support to the hospital working with the minimum of supervision, covering any of the courier, portering, cleaning, admin and security duties
Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to):
- Whilst no formal qualifications are required excellent communication skills and presentation are essential
- Although escorting patients in a safe and friendly manner is a key function you will also be required to perform a number of varied duties
- Managing deliveries, all waste collection and disposal (including clinical)
- Movement of all goods and equipment when required and any additional tasks as requested
- Hourly walk rounds of the hospital site and assisting in any security duties
- Helping with any administration tasks that may be required i.e. medical records
- Switchboard
- Cardiac
Who are we looking for?
- Excellent customer service and providing a friendly ear to patients during what can sometimes be a particularly unsettling time, our team of Porters provide a vital service in our Hospital
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Excellent customer care skills
- Ability to work without supervision
- Caring and sympathetic
- Ability to work evenings and possibly some weekends
- Able to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the department
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
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
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
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
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.