PORTER

Job Overview

The Eastern Cape Department of Health offers 15 Porter positions within the Amathole District (Salary Level 02: R144 024 - R169 656 per annum). Candidates require an NQF level 3 (Grade 10) qualification with no prior experience needed, good communication skills, and willingness to work shifts. Duties involve patient transport, mortuary services, equipment handling, and maintaining hospital support standards. Applications must be submitted via the e-Recruitment system using a Z83 form and a detailed CV.

Requirements & Qualifications

• NQF level 3 (Grade 10 certificate or equivalent)
• No experience required
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Willingness 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 such as the 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
• Offload patients from ambulances and private cars to stretchers
• Clean stretchers and wheelchairs after usage at all times
• Report all faulty or broken equipment to the supervisor immediately
• Receive corpses, record date and time received and released
• Store corpses in the cool room
• Release and keep records of corpses handed over to 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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