Delivery Driver

Alliance Healthcare; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Perks at Work

Employee Assistance Programme

Holiday allowance

Job summary

Alliance Healthcare in Dorchester is seeking a Multi Drop Van Driver to ensure the speedy, efficient delivery of pharmaceuticals to pharmacies and hospitals.

The role involves 48 hours per week (Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri and Sat mornings) with a salary of £35,642.88. You will perform daily vehicle safety checks, load/unload orders, and maintain professional customer relations, with additional warehouse duties as required.

Qualifications

• A full driving license must be held relevant to the vehicle being driven.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent customer care.
• Intermediate numeracy and literacy.

Responsibilities

• Drive safely and comply with traffic laws and signs while considering other road users.
• Perform a daily vehicle safety check (lights, brakes, coolant, etc.).
• Report faults, breakdowns, accidents or delays promptly.
• Maintain the vehicle’s interior/exterior condition and cleanliness.
• Ensure sufficient fuel for the day’s work and secure vehicle contents at all times.
• Load orders from drop sheets and ensure all items are loaded.
• Collect goods returned for credit and return them to the branch as instructed.
• Handle damages/breakages promptly with HazChem procedures in mind.
• Support good customer relations and assist with warehouse tasks as needed.

Skills

Full driving licence

Communications skills

Customer care

Numeracy & literacy

Job description

Job Details

Job Title: Multi Drop Van Driver

Location: Dorchester

Hours per week:

48hrs M/T/W/TH/F and Sat mornings

Salary:

£35,642.88

Job Summary

To ensure the speedy, efficient, and accurate delivery of pharmaceuticals to pharmacies and hospitals.

Key Responsibilities

• To maintain a safe a competent standard of driving, observing speed limits and other traffic signs and giving due regard to other road users.
• To have a daily check to ensure that your vehicle is in a roadworthy condition including a check of the lights, brakes, coolant, etc.
• To report any faults, breakdowns, accidents or delays.
• To maintain the internal and external condition of the vehicle together with the cleanliness of the vehicle.
• To ensure sufficient quantities of fuel have been taken for the day's work.
• To maintain the security of the vehicle and its contents at all times.
• To check all orders shown on the drop sheets and ensure all orders are loaded on the vehicle.
• To collect goods returned for credit, mail, delivery bins and their safe return to the branch at times instructed by the branch management.
• Ensure damages/breakages are dealt with promptly and correctly with due regard to special procedures for HazChems.
• To help maintain good customer relations.
• To be involved in other duties including warehouse tasks as defined by the Management.

Essential

Skills Knowledge and Experience required:

• A full driving license must be held relevant to the vehicle being driven
• Whilst we do not ask for a clean license, we will assess the risk of employing applicants who have points on their license, and this may affect our decision to shortlist
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent Customer care
• Intermediate Numeracy and Literacy

Desirable

• Previous experience of multi-drop delivery driving is highly desirable
• Route planning experience

Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Perks at Work (Discounts on top brands)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 20 days’ holiday + bank holidays, increasing with service length

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: Alliance Healthcare Management Services Limited

Equal Employment Opportunity

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