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NHS Professionals • Part-time • Maidstone, England, United Kingdom • £12 / hour • 2d ago

Job Title: Porter / Driver

Location: Oakwood, Hermitage Lane, Maidstone, Kent ME16 9PH

Shift Pattern: Monday – Sunday various hours over winter period, lots of opportunities to work!

Pay: Band 2 - £12.08 per hour plus enhanced pay for weekends and bank holidays

Trust: Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Can you bring your housekeeping skills to a hospital environment? Do you have strong customer service skills and enjoy working in a team?

If you answered yes to either, then Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust would love to hear from you.

What you’ll be responsible for:

· Ensure that a “Duty of Candour” is maintained with services users/carers at all time.

· Ensure services are delivered safely and within the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act, including monitoring the quality and safety at each site of responsibility, identifying breaches, escalating them and acting on them as soon as possible.

· Be responsible for ensuring a regular process of review is in place to detect incidents that indicate adverse quality of care, and triangulate.

· Take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of other persons who may be affected by your actions, and to carry out your responsibilities in ways that ensure a sage and healthy place of work.

· Promote effective communication within all department areas and staff and colleagues.

· Be accountable for own standards of work.

· Support colleagues and work co-operatively to promote good team morale.

You’ll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS.
A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation.

You’ll have the following skills/experience:

Experience in a similar role
Full UK Driving Licence (able to pull and reverse small trailer for food boxes

· Previous NHS experience.

· Deal appropriately with patients, staff and general public.

· Ability to work without direct supervision.

· Flexible approach to duties.

· Able to work as part of a team essential.

· To be a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling affective partnership working at all levels.

· Previous cleaning experience desirable

· Previous Portering experience desirable.

The Trust:

NHS Kent and Medway exists to improve health and healthcare for the people of Kent and Medway.

We do this using influence and partnership to lead the NHS to find ambitious, collaborative solutions to long-standing issues and inequalities, driving innovation and transformation.

We are a leader in health, working with our partners, to make Kent and Medway a great place to live and where people lead longer, healthier, and happier lives.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

· Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week

· Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime

· Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts

· Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone

· Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements

· Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more

· Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us

· Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities’ organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £12.08 per hour

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