Porter
Healthcare, Government, Public Service
Minimum Requirements
- Good interpersonal and communication skills. Knowledge of safe infection prevention methods. Ability to work under pressure, unsupervised, and in a team context.
- Willingness to work shifts, including nightshift, weekends and Public Holidays. Willingness to handle corpses (deceased bodies). Willingness to work overtime when required. Must be of sober habits, physically fit to lift patients/corpse from/onto beds, trolleys, vehicles, wheelchairs and heavy equipment. Willingness to cover shifts in absence of colleagues.
- Appropriate Porter experience in a public health facility.
Responsibilities
- Deliver specimens to laboratories and ensure a safe and hygienic work environment.
- Check and replace gas cylinders in wards/Oxygen bank/treatment areas and assist with shifting of medical equipment to and from rooms.
- Accompany walking patients and transport sitting/non-walking patients per trolley or wheelchair between wards and treatment areas.
- Take responsibility for the transportation of corpses from wards to the mortuary and perform relevant duties in the mortuary which include mortuary registers.
- Safe transport of patients on trolleys and wheelchairs to and from different departments/wards and assist with loading of patients in/out of ambulances/vehicles.
- Responsible for the cleanliness of trolleys, wheelchairs, and working areas and report any defects to trolleys/wheelchairs to the supervisor and reply to requests from wards/clinics.
