Portering Supervisor – £13.17 per hour – 37.5 Hours Per Week – Monday to Friday – Location: Manchester Central Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL
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Join our dedicated team at Manchester Central Hospital as a Portering Supervisor and play a vital role in ensuring seamless patient care and hospital operations. In this key leadership position, you will oversee a skilled portering team committed to delivering a safe, efficient, and reliable transport service across the hospital. Your expertise will help facilitate the smooth movement of medical records, materials, and equipment, supporting our clinicians and departments to deliver exceptional healthcare. If you are a proactive, organised professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for healthcare logistics, this is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a dynamic hospital environment.
What you’ll do
- Monitoring and managing the Hive system to ensure timely completion of all portering jobs
- Allocating work and responsibilities to portering staff, ensuring proper use and return of handheld devices
- Coordinating staff training, including moving and handling, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations
- Managing staff scheduling, including annual leave, sickness absence, and conducting performance appraisals
- Communicating effectively with healthcare and support staff to resolve issues and coordinate portering services
- Ensuring all portering duties are performed in line with Trust policies, including incident reporting and compliance
- Providing 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 on 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
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from people with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.
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Check your local transport links here: Plan Your Journey | Traveline. The destination you should input is: M13 9WL.
Join our dedicated team at Manchester Central Hospital as a Portering Supervisor and play a vital role in ensuring seamless patient care and hospital operations. In this key leadership position, you will oversee a skilled portering team committed to delivering a safe, efficient, and reliable transport service across the hospital. Your expertise will help facilitate the smooth movement of medical records, materials, and equipment, supporting our clinicians and departments to deliver exceptional healthcare. If you are a proactive, organised professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for healthcare logistics, this is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a dynamic hospital environment.
What you’ll do
- Monitoring and managing the Hive system to ensure timely completion of all portering jobs
- Allocating work and responsibilities to portering staff, ensuring proper use and return of handheld devices
- Coordinating staff training, including moving and handling, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations
- Managing staff scheduling, including annual leave, sickness absence, and conducting performance appraisals
- Communicating effectively with healthcare and support staff to resolve issues and coordinate portering services
- Ensuring all portering duties are performed in line with Trust policies, including incident reporting and compliance
- Providing 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 on 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
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from people with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.
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