PORTER (2 POSTS)

Chief Directorate: Metro Health Services
SALARY : R138 486 per annum
CENTRE : Karl Bremer Hospital

REQUIREMENTS : Minimum requirement: Basic literacy and numeracy skills. Experience: Appropriate porter ride within a clinic environment. Inherent necessities of the job: Willingness to work shifts, along with nightshift. Willing to handle bodies (corpses). Ability to manage heavy objects. Competencies (knowledge/skills): Ability to work in a team. Good interpersonal and communication skills.

DUTIES : (Key end result areas/outputs): Accompany strolling sufferers and transport sitting/non-walking patients per wheelchair/trolley from reception to the consulting rooms or from the consulting rooms to the treatment centres. Direct or accompany visitors to a variety of destinations. Collect and supply blood, specimen, samples and deliver to and from wards and blood bank. Assist with the loading of patients in/out of ambulances/vehicle and transfer of patients to beds/trolley and vice versa and raise clinical and other documentation (patient files, reports, etc.) to the reception area. Assist with transferring of scientific equipment to and from rooms. Responsible for the cleanliness and reporting of defects of trolleys and wheelchairs.

ENQUIRIES : Mr C Rhodes, tel. no. (021) 918-1406

APPLICATIONS : Applications are submitted on line by way of www.westerncape.gov.za/health-jobs (click “online applications”).

NOTE : No fee of any form is required when applying for this post.

CLOSING DATE : 14 April 2026, 17:00PM