Moorfields Eye Hospital are recruiting an experienced Porter to join their exceptional Portering department team.
Moorfields Eye Hospital is a renowned centre of excellence for paediatric healthcare and education, Moorfields Eye Hospital is the leading provider of eye care services in the UK. Their extensive network of speciality clinics, which includes their A&E department, paediatric clinic, retinal therapy unit, cataract, glaucoma, genetics, and oracular oncology departments, among many others, their professional staff takes great pride in providing patients with quality care.
The Porters of Moorfields Eye Hospital are in charge of ensuring the smooth daily operation of the Portering Services by continuously adhering to non-patient and/or patient transport policies and standards, as well as by constantly offering top-notch customer service. The chosen applicant will work for the Facilities Directorate division and report to the Domestic and Portering Service Manager.
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Being a part of a fantastic team, being driven to assist and support, and much more
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Exceptional internal training options for career advancement
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Flexible working hours
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Access to free Bank Partners Core Skills training
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Opportunity to gain valuable NHS experience in chosen specialism
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Priority of shifts over all agency workers
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Able to work methodically whether alone or as part of a team
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Able to work with a sense of urgency and to show a can-do attitude
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Capacity to effectively manage time to ensure all duties are completed
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Able to demonstrate personal accountability for completion of required tasks assuring quality results
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Replace the medical gas cylinders that the wards/departments demand and help with gas supply deliveries.
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Dealing with queries from patients, medical professionals and the public in a busy setting and requiring detailed knowledge of hospital departments.
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Responsible for carrying out the following tasks when necessary including the delivery and collection of goods and equipment, patient transportation, linen and laundry collection, retrieval of medical records, collection of medical gases, blood products and sample collection.
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Acting as a member of the fire response team, Cardiac arrest response team, missing child/adult response team, major incident response team, assist security officer when required
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Moving all waste products: clinical, household, recycling, confidential and other, when working as a waste porter, in accordance with all relevant trust policies
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Open/close clinics and open/close alarms.
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To follow the predetermined planned duty schedule when delivering and collecting equipment and/or handling other service-related tasks.
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Be vigilant for security breaches inside and outside the hospital
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Transport specimens to the Institute when requested and transport specimens arriving by courier out-of-hours to the Accident & Emergency department for storage when they arrive.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply directly and you will be contacted by a member of the recruitment team shortly. Ensure to attach a copy of your CV dating back 10 years or up to most recent education. To be successful for this role, your CV must include both months and years, if there are any gaps in your CV due to unemployment, travelling etc, please specify the month and year you were in these circumstances.