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Hospital porter
General hospital porter General porter Hospital porter Hospital portering Hospital portering service provider Hospital portering staff member Hospital stretcher bearer Hospital stretcher carrier Porter Stretcher bearer Stretcher carrier
Hospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items.
Tasks
In such cases tasks would include -
(a) Cleaning and sterilizing surgical, dental and pharmaceutical instruments, bottles, beakers and other equipment;
(b) Labelling drugs, chemicals and other pharmaceutical preparations and replenishing stock on shelves;
(c) Lifting, turning and moving patients and transporting them in wheelchairs or on moveable beds;
(d) Preparing patients for examination or treatment;
(e) Setting up instrument trays, preparing materials, and assisting dentists or radiographers during procedures;
(f) Exposing diagnostic x-rays.
Knowledge
- Nursing and midwifery
- Medicine
- Therapy and rehabilitation
- Medical diagnostic and treatment technology
- Transport services
Digital competencies
- Communicating with colleagues and clients
- Complying with health and safety procedures
- Providing medical, dental and nursing care
- Planning events and programmes
- Assisting people with mobility
Digital competencies
No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.
Personal competencies
- Working efficiently
- Maintaining a positive attitude
- Demonstrating willingness to learn
- Following ethical code of conduct
Professional groups of the occupation
Service and sales workers
Personal care workers
Personal care workers in health services
Personal care workers in health services not elsewhere classified
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Personal care workers in health services not elsewhere classified
15.750
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
41,74%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
37,49% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
11,18%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
22,46%
Part-time contracts
3,38% Turnover index
1.918
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
2%
Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
The market for this profile is hiring
Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age
Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.
Personal care workers
24%
76%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Personal care workers
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
What vacancies are published in the professional family?
Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year
Personal care workers in health services
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Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.
What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?
Personal care workers in health services not elsewhere classified
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
The vacancies published are for working in:
Job vacancies posted by county
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
