A guide for hospital and NHS porters considering a move into IT in the UK, covering transferable skills, realistic salary and the practical route in.
Porters keep a hospital moving, reliably, under time pressure, often as the person everyone depends on to get something urgent where it needs to be. That reliability, working calmly under real pressure, is exactly the foundation IT support teams are built on, and porters often already know the hospital's systems and layout better than most.
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