'I learn something new every day', says Jersey hospital porter
"It is very rewarding when people who are desperately ill walk out. There's always someone who needs us."That is how Jersey General Hospital porter Robin Boleat summed up the satisfaction he gets from his job after being named International Porter of the Year in the MyPorter awards.He joined the team at the hospital 17 years ago after a career in retail.Describing how varied the job is, Mr Boleat said: "Sometimes it's quite high-paced, you're trying to move somebody from intensive care to have a CT scan, and they're on a ventilator and there are pipes and wires and drips and goodness knows what else."
'Kind and hard-working'
Mr Boleat added: "There's always patients who need moving from A to B, pieces of medical equipment, wheelchairs, trolleys, beds, whatever needs moving."I'm learning something new every day."I still get lost when I wander round the hospital sometimes."Health and Care Jersey said on X they were proud of Mr Boleat and described him as "kind and hard-working", adding he had a "genuine desire to make a difference in the lives of others".Mr Boleat said: "You'd think that working in a hospital you'd be affected by some of the sad stories that you see and things that you see happen."The opposite seems to happen - when you start helping more people that seems to help you get along."
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