Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (rotation to provide cover 24h)
- Job ref
- 110-EA097-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £24,433 - £26,060 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Porter Security
Band 3
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 within the Porter Services department based at Princess of Wales Hospital for permanent, full time Porter Security. In this role the successful applicant will be expected to use a variety of equipment, communication devices, and software systems supplied by the Facilities department. This will include the use of PCs, telephones, radios, and pagers.
Training will be provided in all aspects of the job, and successful candidates will be expected to complete their vocational and mandatory training within the first two months of their employment.
In the event of a major incident or to support the department in adverse weather conditions, the successful applicant will be required to be called into work to support the hospital outside of normal working hours.
Ideally the successful candidates will be able to demonstrate previous experience of working in a hospital environment, or of having had similar roles outside of the NHS.
All posts will be paid monthly by electronic cash transfer on the 21st of each month. This organisation uses the Disclosure Barring Service system and will apply for an appropriate disclosure on all successful applicants.
Main duties of the job
The role covers the full range of hospital Porter duties and typically this will involve:
- Security details including locking and unlocking departments.
- Providing support and assurance to departments.
- Managing hospital car parks, and issuing Parking Charge Notices as required.
- Patient transfers.
- The collection and delivery of specimens.
- Medical gas cylinder delivery and collection.
- Medical device transfers.
- Waste management duties.
- Post room duties.
- Driving duties.
- Mortuary transfers
The above is representative of the expected duties, but the list is not meant to be exhaustive.
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.
The Porter Services department at Princes of Wales Hospital provides a 24/7 service, and successful candidate will be required to work nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays to support this. Shift patterns will be discussed with candidates during the interview process and some degree of flexibility will be required to be successful for this vacancy. There may also be a requirement to support Porter Services departments at other hospitals.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Internal training equivalent to SIA accreditation certificate of training . NVQ level 3 in Business administration or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Prior work experience of porter, security or transport services with the health service or related work e.g. retail, factory, HM forces etc
Skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Lodwick
- Job title
- Facilities Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752345
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