Portering Supervisor

Portering Supervisor – Manchester Central Hospital

• Location: Manchester Central Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL

The role is to oversee a skilled portering team, ensuring safe and reliable transport services across the hospital, facilitating the smooth movement of records, materials and equipment to support clinical services.

What you’ll do:

• Monitor and manage the Hive system to ensure timely completion of all portering jobs.
• Allocate work and responsibilities to portering staff, ensuring proper use and return of handheld devices.
• Coordinate staff training, including moving and handling, and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Manage staff scheduling, annual leave, sickness absence and conduct performance appraisals.
• Communicate effectively with healthcare and support staff to resolve issues and coordinate portering services.
• Ensure all portering duties are performed in line with Trust policies, including incident reporting and compliance.
• Provide emergency response coordination during incidents such as cardiac arrests, fires and other critical situations.

What you bring:

• Good communication skills to enable communication with colleagues, patients and clients regarding job duties.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Good level of customer care.
• Experience of working in a healthcare environment (desirable).
• Good understanding of health and safety and manual handling practices.
• Ability to respond constructively and professionally to unpredictable situations.
• Attend mandatory induction and health and safety related training and all other required training.

What we offer:

• Mental health and wellbeing resources.
• Employee Assistance Programme (including financial/legal advice and personal support).
• Free health and wellbeing app with 24/7 virtual GP access.
• Discounts on high street brands for you and your family.
• Salary finance tools and financial wellbeing resources.
• Retirement savings plan and life insurance.
• Full training and protective uniform provided.
• Opportunities to gain experience through learning and development.
• Cycle to Work scheme and volunteering opportunities.
• Flexible working and a dynamic team environment.
• Competitive pay.

Equality and diversity statement:

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and encouraging applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are a Disability Confident Leader employer and run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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