Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Vacancy 1: Mon-Fri 7am-1pm + every other Saturday 6:45am-12:45pm & Vacancy 2: Mon-Fri 1pm 7pm + every other Saturday 6:45am-12:45pm- 2 week rota: week one 36 hours per week + week two 30 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 151-ES128
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £25,768 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Theatre Porter
Band 2
Job overview
Join Our Theatre Porter Team – Become a Vital Part of Patient Care!
Are you someone who loves helping others and thrives in a fast‑paced, people‑focused environment?
At Wexham Park Theatres, our Theatre Porters are the heartbeat of the patient journey.
From warmly collecting patients and putting them at ease, to ensuring our sterile equipment is safely delivered across the hospital—you’ll be at the centre of everything that keeps our theatres running smoothly.
As a Theatre Porter, you’ll play a crucial role in the seamless flow of patients in and out of theatres, always offering a helping hand wherever you can. You’ll have the unique opportunity to support patients before and after surgery and gain fascinating insights into the world inside our operating theatres.
And this is just the beginning. At Frimley Health, we’re committed to helping you grow. If you want to develop into other roles in the future—we’ll be right there to support your journey.
Come and join OUR TEAM – become part of the Wexham Park Theatre Family!
Main duties of the job
All in the job description. We've covered it all!
At Frimley Health, we’re committed to helping you grow. If you want to develop into other roles in the future—we’ll be right there to support your journey.
Join Our Team!
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
On a daily basis you will do anything from the equipment runs to and from Sterile Services. To checking our medical gas reserves, and preparing patient trollies. As the rush comes, the theatres will request patients to be collected form the ward where you will be able to inform the department of any delays, liaising with our Theatre Coordinator.
As the day goes on, you'll be on hand to help wherever is needed throughout the department.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in patient/customer facing roles before
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a healthcare environment.
Skills/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of responsibility of a porter
- Understanding of customer care
- Basic knowledge of Health and Safety
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of COSHH
- General knowledge of hygiene and cleanliness
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Standard Education Level
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kevin Harvey
- Job title
- Theatre Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07766195750
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