Full time vacancies available – various shifts – to be confirmed at interview. This role includes Portering and Basic Security duties. Porters move people and items around a hospital site. Basic Security Service includes an Open and close function as well as supporting the site Security Officer with Parking. This support grade role will work in a dual role. This means that you will be expected to support Porter the porter and security role, based in Victoria Infirmary Northwich., You would be ;
- Using special handling techniques to move expensive, specialist medical equipment from one part of the hospital to another.
- Transporting medical supplies, such as oxygen cylinders, and collecting and returning them when they are empty.
- Transporting general clinical waste and hazardous materials.
- Delivering some supplies to departments.
- Assisting the site security officer with car park management.
- Providing an open/close service.
You will be a part of the Security team within the facilities department, based at VIN and will have contact with clinical and non-clinical staff. You could work with nurses, operating department practitioners, healthcare assistants, housekeepers and other security staff.
- Have good communication skills.
- Be able to work well with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
- Be friendly, polite and helpful.
- Have a positive outlook.
- Be fit and have high levels of stamina.
- Be able to work well under pressure.
- Act calmly and quickly in emergencies.
- Be able to follow instructions.
- Be reliable, hardworking, honest and trustworthy.
- Respect patient confidentiality.
- Deal sensitively with patients and visitors who are anxious, distressed or very unwell.
- Have a flexible attitude to work.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff. An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million. During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE. At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
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