Porter Combo

Req ID: 187141
Location: Eastern Zone, Cape Breton Regional Hospital
Department: FMS Porters General
Type of Employment: TemporaryHourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1
Support Position
Posting Closing Date: 17-Sep-24

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

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To transport and assist patients who are scheduled for surgical or diagnostic procedures or who otherwise require portering services. Obtains and delivers supplies, specimens, charts, correspondence and other items as may be required. Ensures that stretchers are cleaned and prepared for patients. Performs other related duties under the direction of Facility Support Services Management. Job duties are outlined in the Job Description.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Grade 12 or GED required
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively verbally and written
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills with patients and other staff and public
• Ability to assist patients from bed to stretcher and wheel chairs as well as onto examining tables
• Current CPR Certification or willing to complete CPR Certification within 30 days
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

• Long assignment, full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
• Assignment is approximately 12 months in length

$ $21.69 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

​This is a Support bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

​Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.