Goods Receiving & Distribution Officer

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job sharing allowed

Flexible patterns

Job summary

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking a Goods Receiving and Distribution Officer (Supplies) to support the receipt and delivery of hospital supplies. The role includes goods receipting, organising deliveries to wards, and assisting with stock checks using hospital inventory systems.

The position requires basic literacy, the ability to follow task lists, and an understanding of health and safety at work. It is a full-time role based in London with the option to cover other sites as needed.

Qualifications

• GCSE literacy and ability to read instructions.
• Ability to follow task lists and work methods.
• Basic health and safety awareness in a warehouse environment.
• Ability to perform manual handling and routine tasks.

Responsibilities

• Receive goods into the site and check against deliveries.
• Organise deliveries to user departments and coordinate with portering staff.
• Undertake goods receipting and prepare items for distribution.
• Select and forward internal requisitions from bulk stores using inventory systems.
• Work across multiple PPS hospital sites as required; support Ward Inventory Controller.

Skills

GCSE literacy

Follow task lists

Health and safety awareness

Manual tasks

Education

GCSE literacy

Tools

Inventory systems

Job description

Main area Procurement Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - 08:00hrs. to 16:00hrs (with 30 minutes lunch break)(excluding bank holidays)) Job ref 220-WHT-8382941

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Central Stores Royal Free Hospital Town London Salary £31,554 - £33,270 Per Annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 18/11/2026 23:59

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

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Whittington Health NHS Trust is committed to ensuring that its recruitment processes are carried out with integrity, transparency, and fairness for all applicants. To help maintain these standards, we ask candidates to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the recruitment process.

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We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.

Goods Receiving and Distribution Officer (Supplies) this role will offer support in the receipt and delivery, to undertake delivery's throughout the hospital site, this role involves lifting, carrying, bending and is a physical role, interaction with staff of all levels is required

Responsible for the correct receipt of goods into the site and organizing their delivery to user departments. This service is provided to all NHS Trusts on all sites.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the correct receipt of goods into the site and organizing their delivery to user departments. This service is provided to all NHS Trusts on all sites.

Undertake goods receipting, organize goods for distribution by portering staff, undertake distribution where required and provide support to the Ward Inventory Controller (Material Management Service) with the checking and putting away of goods at ward level where required. Also picking internal requisitions from a bulk store, using inventory systems and issuing stock. Each of the Goods Receipt & Distribution Officer staff will have a nominated base but are required to work on other PPS hospital sites these include Moorfields, Barnet, Chase Farm, North Middlesex and Whittington., depending on the needs of the service.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The competencies outlined in this position description are ideals to which the candidate will need to consistently display in order to conduct the job effectively.

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP SKILLS

Direct deliveries to the correct delivery point.

Routinely provide and receive information relating to orders, deliveries, discrepancies and action as necessary.

Maintain effective communications with other members of the team to ensure a smooth and efficient working environment.

Responsible for the identification and segregation of items that require P.A.T. testing. Ensure third party contractor carries out testing promptly and arrange onward delivery.

Responsible for identification and segregation of medical equipment that requires testing by E.B.M.E./M.E.S. Ensure that E.B.M.E./M.E.S. receive the goods promptly and arrange onward delivery as appropriate.

Work with the Receipt and Distribution Supervisor to provide a flexible receipt and delivery service that meets the requirements of the end users.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• GCSE standard of literacy to read instructions or reference material
• Ability to understand instructions and/or follow task lists

Skills & Abilities

• Basic awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace
• Able to undertake a range of manual and routine tasks

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of warehouse environment NHS experience.
• Previous experience in distribution and ISO9000 procedures

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Other important information –

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

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