PORTER

Job Overview

The Eastern Cape Department of Health is seeking 12 Porters at Frere Tertiary Hospital in Buffalo City Metro. Responsibilities include transporting patients and specimens, handling mortuary services, and maintaining equipment. Requirements include an NQF Level 3 or Grade 10 certificate with no prior experience needed, good communication skills, and willingness to work shifts under pressure. Applications must be submitted via the provincial e-recruitment system.

Requirements & Qualifications

• NQF level 3 (Grade 10 certificate or equivalent) with no experience
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Must be willing to work shifts and under pressure
• Sound knowledge of Customer care

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Wheel patients to and from the wards
• Transport patients to various service areas e.g. operating theatre
• Transport patients to vehicles or other transportation
• Collect and transport corpses to the mortuary
• Deliver equipment, stores and documentation to wards and other departments
• Collect and deliver specimens
• Offloading of patients from ambulance and private cars to stretchers
• Cleaning of stretchers and wheelchairs after usage at all times
• Report all faulty or broken equipment to your supervisor immediately
• Render mortuary services: Receive corpses, record date and time received and released, store in cool room, release and keep records for next of kin
• Load and off-load corpses, keep proper identification and maintain accuracy of records
• Maintain, clean, and ensure safe keeping of equipment

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