Job summary
- Main area
- Support Services
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 110-EA089-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Offices
- Town
- pontypridd
- Salary
- £23,970 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Porter (with driving duties)
Band 2
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for three successful candidates to join our busy team of community bed porters based at our Community Offices, Heol Draw.
The position will consist mainly of supporting driving duties, but will also support all relevant porter duties as per role requirements.
The post holder will work without supervision as a member of a multi-disciplined Team and will be expected to deliver, install, repair and collect a range of medical equipment throughout Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) locality.
Main duties of the job
1. To work within CTMUHB and routinely at all Health sites, undertaking all duties as designated by the Porter Services Supervisor/Porter Service Team Leader (within remit of the role) in accordance with Porter Services Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and as detailed in the assignment instructions for the post and site.
2. To work as part of the fire response team, liaising with the relevant site nominated officer responsible for fire safety and colleagues, attending incidents and assisting with patient evacuation where necessary.
3. To provide and working on a duty rota; for example, the transfer of patients, movement of clinical and non clinical equipment, collection of specimens, pharmacy duties, patient meal service trolleys, wheelchair management services, hospital key control, bulk stores deliveries, mail services, medical gases, waste collection and carry out driving duties on site and at locations off site.
4. To undertake the day-to-day routine duties the post holder is required to use various types of equipment and audit tool and communication devices supplied by the Facilities department, i.e. computers, Datix, Portertrac (Ausped), hand held audit devices, telephones, bleeps, two way radios, earpieces, etc.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Shortlisting Criteria
Essential criteria
- Educated to a good standard of education or relative work experience. • Customer services NVQ level 2 or equivalent level of knowledge and experience. • Full driving license. (Cat B license holders with a Cat D1 driver entitlement).
Desirable criteria
- Able to confirm that have worked in a similar role either in or out of NHS
- Knowledge of Porter duties
- Knowledge of Manual Handling / or relevant ongoing training
- Able to be able to communicate with patients, visitors, medical staff and colleagues in your area of work on a daily basis
- Good level of literacy and numeracy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills. Able to work as part of a team.
Desirable criteria
- • Customer services NVQ level 2 or equivalent level of knowledge and experience. • Full driving license
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Ivey
- Job title
- Facilities Support manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443443
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