PORTER – POST 36/118
Chief Directorate: Metro Health Services
PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION: WESTERN CAPE – DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS
SALARY : R125 373 per annum
CENTRE : Mitchells Plain District Hospital/ EC HUB (Operating between institutions and
Heideveld Emergency Hub)
REQUIREMENTS
Minimum requirement: Basic reading and writing skills. Experience: Appropriate Porter/mortuary experience in a public health facility. Inherent requirements of the job: 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, and physically fit to lift patients/corpses from/onto beds, trolleys, vehicles,
wheelchairs, and heavy equipment. Willingness to cover shifts in the absence of colleagues. Prepared to work in all departments /wards in hospital and Heideveld EC Hub. Competencies (knowledge/skills): Good interpersonal and communication skills. Knowledge of safe infection prevention methods. Ability to work under pressure, unsupervised, and in a team context.
DUTIES
- Deliver specimens to laboratories and ensure a safe and hygienic work environment. Check and replace gas cylinders in wards/treatment areas and assist with shifting 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.
ENQUIRIES : Mr M Pedro Tel No: (021) 377 4327
APPLICATIONS : The CEO: Mitchell’s Plain Hospital: AZ Berman Drive, Lentegeur or Private
Bag X9, Mitchell’s Plain 7789.
FOR ATTENTION : Ms CC Johnson
NOTE : No payment of any kind is required when applying for this post. Candidates
may be subjected to a competency test.
CLOSING DATE : 27 October 2023
