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DSFS Ltd are looking to recruit 4 Porters on zero hour bank contracts, to work within the portering department based at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
The duties include conducting a wide variety of portering tasks, you will be expected to work a shift pattern covering 24 hours a day / 7 days a week including weekends.
Main duties of the job
Being a Porter will involve any general portering duties including patient moves, linen transportation, furniture moves, recycling and waste collection. The nature of this work requires a significant amount of walking between tasks throughout the shift and there is a physical element to all operations.
Full training will be given for this post, which will initially require full time working for a period of 4 weeks covering all 24 hour 7 day shift patterns, attendance of regular refresher training courses is also a mandatory requirement.
Good interpersonal skills are required for interacting with patients and basic computer skills are essential for logging all tasks on a central database, for which full training will be given.
A full driving license is required for waste collection; for any disabled candidates, alternative arrangements may be arranged. An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
Working for our organisation
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 700 staff in Facilities, Estates, Procurement, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible and proactive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments section on this page. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that are required for the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
Experience
* Ability to work unsupervised
* Adaptable to meet service needs
* Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work as a team
* Worked within a hospital environment
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to multi-task
* Computer and keyboard skills
* Full UK driving licence for operating the waste collection vehicle*
Personal Attributes
* Physically capable of handling wheeled waste containers and furniture waste. For disabled applicants, alternative arrangements can be made if required
* Adaptable to meet service needs
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Communications
Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.
References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.
If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / crhft.dsfshumanresources@nhs.net and we will be happy to provide assistance.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Mark Taylor Job title Portering Team Leader Email address m.taylor21@nhs.net Telephone number 01246 513430 Additional information
Mr Ian Hemsworth Portering Team Leader 01246/513430 or 01246/513394.
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