Job summary
- Main area
- Theatre Portering Supervisor
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday)
- Job ref
- 264-7807082-SUR
- Employer
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kettering General Hospital
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £25,760 - £27,476 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Theatre Porter Supervisor
Band 3
Job overview
We are seeking a dedicated and proactive Theatre Porter Supervisor to become an integral part of our peri‑operative team. In this role, you will work across all theatre areas, supporting the delivery of a safe, efficient, and high‑quality service.
With the support of senior line management, you will oversee the day‑to‑day supervision of the Theatre Porter Team. This includes managing staff rotas, coordinating annual leave, allocating staff to work areas, supporting sickness and absence processes, and ensuring compliance with statutory and mandatory training. You will also play a key role in maintaining ongoing competency within the team and fostering effective collaboration to support safe patient flow and theatre efficiency.
Your responsibilities will include reporting any equipment deficits, breakages, faults, or sterility concerns promptly to the Team Leader or Clinical Coordinator. You will ensure the safe transfer of clinical specimens to the appropriate departments, following Trust protocols and completing all required documentation. You will also carry out routine and emergency cleaning of theatre areas in line with Theatre Standards and provide hands‑on portering support when staffing shortages arise.
You will be expected to identify, report, and support the analysis of actual or potential adverse events using the Trust’s Datix Clinical Incident Reporting system.
Main duties of the job
- Provide day‑to‑day supervision and immediate line management to the Theatre Porter Team, ensuring safe and effective service delivery.
- Coordinate staff rotas, including allocation to theatre areas, annual leave
planning, and management of sickness and absence. - Monitor staff performance, mandatory training compliance, and ongoing
competency, escalating concerns where appropriate. - Support the induction, development, and mentoring of new and existing staff.
- Promote a positive, professional working culture aligned with Trust values and behaviours.
- Oversee the safe and timely transfer of patients to and from theatres, recovery, wards, and other clinical areas.
- Ensure portering support is aligned with theatre lists, clinical priorities, and operational demands.
- Step in to provide hands‑on portering duties during staff shortages,
emergencies, or peak activity periods. - Coordinate the movement of equipment, trolleys, and clinical items to support theatre efficiency and patient flow.
- Maintain effective communication with Theatre Managers, Team Leaders, and the wider multidisciplinary team
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close adverts once we have received sufficient applications
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is on an exciting journey with all of our divisions committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN). As part of this collaborative approach, there may be a requirement for you to work across both the Kettering and Northampton hospital sites, depending on the needs of the service.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across UHN and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
UHN encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Silver Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for UHN.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the main duties and responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to GCSE level or NVQ level 3 level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven record of a high level of support service delivery in a healthcare setting.
- Understanding of legislation relating to the protection of person identifiable information
- Experience of delivery of objectives within a constantly changing environment
Desirable criteria
- NHS role in support services Previous line management experience
- Previous Healthcare supervisory experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work as an integral member of the Peri-operative Team across theatres
- Able to prepare and supervise working rotas, to maintain optimum use of resources to meet service needs.
- Able to check and authorise time sheets, manage sickness/absence and annual leave and maintain accurate records.
- Problem solving skills and a high level of diligence
- Able to manage difficult and/or conflict situations.
- Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills with peers, all members of multidisciplinary team, patients, and relatives
- Able to deliver agreed objectives within agreed timescales.
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety at work to maintain a safe environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Corbishley
- Job title
- Theatre Equipment Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01536 49 3940
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