Position Title: Porter - OR
Position Status: Backfill
Rate of Pay: $24.71- $25.42
Posting No.: 24-49
Posting Date: March 22, 2024
Deadline to Apply: March 29, 2024
About Us:
Located in Simcoe, Ontario, Norfolk General Hospital provides exceptional healthcare to a municipality
of approximately 69,000 people. Our area of focus provides a continuum of service throughout the
life span of the people we serve including Emergency, Critical Care, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Medicine,
Surgery, and Complex Continuing Care. Employing approximately 550 highly skilled and dedicated
employees, Norfolk General Hospital continues to be a full service 106-bed hospital with round the
clock on-call coverage of Specialists in Surgery, Anesthesia, Internal Medicine, and Obstetrics, as well
as on-site 24 hour per day medical coverage.
Simcoe is less than one hour away from most major centers, including Hamilton and London, and only
90 minutes from the Greater Toronto Area. Situated in Norfolk County (Ontario’s South Coast),
Simcoe is not far from Lake Erie and the 88 miles of shoreline that includes long stretches of sandy
beach.
Position Qualifications:
- Secondary School Diploma (Grade 12)
- Current BCLS-C certificate required
- Knowledgeable of and able to practice the expectations of providing safe transport of patients
- Excellent attendance and safety record
Principal Position Duties and Responsibilities:
- Transports patients to and from the Operating Room to nursing units
- Assists nursing staff when moving patients from stretchers to bed
- Washes and remakes stretchers following each patient use
- Delivers mail
- Transports pathology specimens to lab
- Determines linen requirements and faxes order to supplier
- Adherence to all health and safety policies, procedures and provisions and the recognition and
- Other relevant duties as assigned
How to Apply: Interested applicants must submit a cover letter and updated resume to the Human
Resources Department email nghhr@ngh.on.ca referring to the above posting number by 1600 hours
on March 29, 2024
In order to ensure equal opportunities during the recruitment and selection process, Norfolk General
Hospital and Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities,
upon request.
Norfolk General Hospital and Norfolk Hospital Nursing Home thanks all applicants for their interest.
Please note that only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.