Porter at Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness

Experience:

• Appropriate Porter experience in a public health facility.

Minimum Educational Qualification:

• Basic numeracy and literacy.

Duties

• Deliver specimens to laboratories and ensure a safe and hygienic work environment. Check and replace gas cylinders in wards/Oxygen bank/treatment areas and assist with shifting of 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.