Job Description
The hospital porters performs variety of different tasks such as, transport / mobilizing ambulatory or non-ambulatory patients to different areas of the hospital as directed by staff, maintaining clean & sanitize departmental facility / equipment as guided by the department staff. The porters are also responsible to organize patients as per daily doctors’ appointments at their assigned work locations, transporting blood samples, sorting patient linens, cleaning of mobile trolleys, collecting store supplies etc.
Porters are to ensure that their assigned area is operating in the most productive manner possible. Hospital porters are assigned to various departments on daily basis and rotated on quarterly from one location to others as planned by immediate HK supervisor.
The hospital porters are not permitted to perform clinical or non-clinical patient procedure or to operate high tech electronic medical equipment at their assigned location on behalf of departmental staff.
A Housekeeping Porters duties and responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to the following tasks
- Responsible for maintaining the entire assigned location in an appropriate and comfortable condition in accordance with supervisor directives.
- Responsible in completing the clean turnovers / make readies of vacant patient units, as directed
- Perform daily cleaning, dusting, moping, vacuuming, cleaning light fixture, equipment cleaning - dusting at assigned areas as directed by seniors or as needed.
- Maintain polite, non-aggressive, moral behavior / attitude with patients as well as patients family while at work in assigned area.
- Assist in trash picking at the assigned area.
- Assist transporting patients for x-rays, lab tests and from one area to another as directed by supervisor.
- Responsible to ensure that ward equipment, patient beds and windows of the hospital are properly cleaned & dusted in assigned area.
- Responsible bring departmental GS or pharmacy supplies as directed by area supervisor
- Remove and prepare soiled laundry from the floors for washing.
- Implement all orders of the HK management, HK Team Lead / HK Officer / HK Supervisor, including supervisor in his / her assigned area.
- Any other tasks assigned by the HK management, HK Team Lead / HK Officer / HK Supervisor