Hospital porter
Code 5329.1
Hospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- human anatomy
- emergency cases
- clinical science
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- transportation methods
- disorders of vital functions
- principles of paramedic practice
Skills and competences
- Fomentar la participación activa del paciente
- adapt to emergency care environment
- apply context specific clinical competences
- accept own accountability
- position patients undergoing interventions
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- apply good clinical practices
- employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care
- assess nature of injury in emergency
- manage major incidents
- immobilise patients for emergency intervention
- operate specialised equipment in emergency
- listen actively
- prioritise emergencies
- conduct physical examination in emergency
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- select hazard control
- supervisar las constantes vitales de un paciente
- trasladar a los pacientes al centro médico
- transfer patients
- operate an emergency communication system
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- observe confidentiality
- provide first aid
- first aid
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- tolerate stress
Download the role profile
We'll send you a profile ready to paste into your job ad: purpose, essential and optional skills, and what to assess. One email, no signup.
What to assess for this role
Technical knowledge can be verified with tests and references. What never shows up on a CV are the transversal competences, and they explain most failed hires. Before closing, it pays to measure them with a standardised battery.
See psychometric assessmentSimilar roles
Other roles in the same group, useful when the one you need is not an exact fit.
Need to find this profile?
We source, screen and assess candidates for this kind of role, with a replacement guarantee. Fast process and a flat fee per role, no percentage of the salary.
In Obrii App the profile becomes a job descriptor, a CV screener and an interview scorecard. Try it free for 14 days, no credit card.
Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences