2 PORTERS wanted immediately: APPLY NOW

Institution: Mitchell’s District Plain Hospital/EC Hub

(Chief Directorate: Metro Health Services)

Service benefits:

13th cheque, employer’s contribution to the pension fund, housing, and medical aid allowance.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

Basic numeracy and literacy.

Experience:

Appropriate Porter experience in a public health facility.

Inherent requirements of the job:

Willingness to work shifts, public holidays, and over weekends.

Willingness to handle bodies (corpses).

Ability to perform tasks such as lifting patients from/onto beds, trolleys, and wheelchairs.

Willingness to cover shifts in absence of colleagues.

Competencies (knowledge/skills):

Ability to communicate in at least two of the three official languages of the Western Cape.

Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Duties (key result areas/outputs):

Transport corpses from ward to the bereavement room.

Take blood specimens to laboratories.

Check and replace gas cylinders inwards and assist with the shifting of medical equipment.

Accompany walking patients and transport sitting/non-walking patients per trolley or wheelchair between wards and treatment areas.

Assist with loading of patients in/out of ambulances/vehicles.

Responsible for cleaning of wheelchairs and trolleys.

Note: No payment of any kind is required when applying for this post. Candidates may be required to undertake a practical test.

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