Logistics Assistant

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Lancashire; Sur place; GBP 21 000 - 27 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking a proactive Logistics Assistant based at Blackburn Ambulance Station. The role provides essential logistical support to frontline operations, ensuring vehicles, equipment and clinical consumables are safe, stocked and ready for use.

You will work within a busy environment, coordinating movements, maintaining records, and using IT systems to track assets and stock. A full UK driving licence with C1 entitlement is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in logistics, fleet, warehousing or stock control.
• Experience of checks on vehicles/equipment.
• Good communication skills (verbal and written).

Responsabilités

• Complete vehicle readiness checks and basic maintenance tasks.
• Monitor, manage and replenish stock and consumables.
• Support equipment checks, servicing and asset tracking.
• Maintain records using IT and electronic systems.
• Coordinate and support vehicle movements for servicing and deep cleaning.
• Adapt workload as priorities change.
• Work safely respecting health, safety and infection control standards.

Connaissances

Record keeping

IT competency

Team player

Time management

Verbal & written communication

Attention to detail

Formation

Full UK Driving Licence with C1 entitlement

Outils

Inventory systems

Vehicle checks & maintenance

Description du poste

Based at Blackburn Ambulance Station, working within Blackburn GroupWe are looking for a proactive, organised and dependable individual to join Blackburn Group as a Logistics Assistant, based at Blackburn Ambulance Station.

This is a varied and hands-on role providing essential logistical support to frontline ambulance operations. You will help ensure that vehicles, equipment and clinical consumables are safe, clean, appropriately stocked and ready for operational use.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, reliable and adaptable, with the ability to multitask and manage competing priorities within a busy, fast-paced operational environment. You will need excellent time-management skills, strong verbal and written communication skills and good attention to detail.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with operational managers, Fleet, workshops, clinical teams and other support services, your responsibilities will include:

• Completing vehicle readiness checks and basic vehicle maintenance tasks.
• Monitoring, managing and replenishing stock and clinical consumables.
• Supporting equipment checks, servicing requirements and asset tracking.
• Maintaining accurate records using relevant IT and electronic systems.
• Coordinating and supporting vehicle movements for servicing, maintenance, inspection and deep cleaning.
• Responding to changing operational requirements and reprioritising work where necessary.
• Working safely and maintaining appropriate standards in relation to health and safety, manual handling, infection prevention and vehicle safety.

About us

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.

Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.

Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.

We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Job responsibilities

You should be able to work effectively as part of a wider team while also being confident working independently, using your own initiative and taking a proactive approach to identifying and resolving problems. You will need to communicate effectively with a range of clinical and non-clinical colleagues and be comfortable adapting your workload when operational priorities change.

You will also need to be confident using IT and electronic systems for record keeping, stock control and asset management, and be able to undertake the physical aspects of the role safely and effectively. Previous experience within logistics, fleet, warehousing, stock control, asset management or a similar operational support environment would be advantageous, as would experience of undertaking vehicleand/or equipment checks.

A full UK driving licence with Category C1 entitlement is an essential requirement of this role. Applicants must hold Category C1 entitlement at the point of application.

Visa sponsorship is not possible for this role for either candidates or existing employees. This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for Skilled Worker/ Health and Care Worker visas as set out at gov.uk. Graduate visa holders should have no expectation of long-term employment through sponsorship. Additionally, your visa conditions and validity period must allow you to work in the role in question and for a suitable period to allow training and execution without requiring sponsorship.

Person Specification

Skills and Competencies

• Record keeping and good IT competency (email, data entry, inventory systems).

Qualification and Knowledge

• Full UK Driving Licence with C1 entitlement.

Experience

• Previous experience in a logistical, support, warehouse or fleet-based role using stock control or asset management systems.
• Experience of conducting checks on vehicles and/or equipment.

Experience

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Values and Behaviours

• Working together - demonstrate collaborative and inclusive working and challenge behaviour that is not inclusive or acceptable.

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team in a pressured environment.
• Good time management and task prioritisation.

Qualification and Knowledge

• Basic vehicle maintenance knowledge.

Values and Behaviours

• Being at our best - professional and adaptable and takes pride in work.
• Making a difference - act with compassion, kindness and integrity towards everyone.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.