Materials Management Assistant - Barrow in Furness

NHS; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Materials Management Assistant for their team at Furness General Hospital. This role involves stock replenishment, customer service, and ensuring efficiency in materials management. Candidates should be enthusiastic, organized, and have relevant experience in customer service and supply chain processes. This is an on-site position in Barrow-in-Furness.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer service-related roles.
• Familiarity with supply chain stock control.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in stock replenishment and management.
• Receive and check deliveries.
• Maintain accurate records and reports.

Skills

Customer service

Stock management

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

GCSE English/Maths Grade C/4 or equivalent

ECDL or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

Materials Management Assistant - Barrow in Furness

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Materials Management Service at Furness General Hospital.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about customer service and stock management. The position provides a stock replenishment service to wards and departments replenishing stock to agreed levels and the checking and put away of goods on receipt. To assist with the provision of an efficient and effective R&D service to wards and departments, ensuring that deliveries are received in good condition, areaccurately checked and promptly booked in prior to distribution around the hospital. To represent the department and deal with customer queries and complaints in a professional and positive manner.

Main duties of the job

The main requirements of the job include:

• To assist in the implementation and maintenance of a materials managed service,undertaking the day to day ordering activity on behalf of the customer. Replenishinggoods at theatre and departmental level using bar code systems as appropriate.
• Receive, check and put away deliveries ordered via materials management service.Ensuring that items are rotated and do not exceed expiry dates, stored in the correct location and the store area left tidy.
• The position requires physical effort often in confined spaces on a daily basis such asthe manual handling of roll cages and unpacking of products on to the store roomshelves.
• Ensure discrepancies for returns and credits are processed timely and appropriately.
• Carrying out quarterly reviews with appropriate ward/theatre/department leads, usingsystem information to illustrate spending patterns identifying products and stock levels.
• Keep all associated paper work regularly updated in line with code and locationchanges.
• Have a flexible attitude to working hours to meet the needs of the customer.
• Provide cover for other Materials Management Assistants as identified by the SupplyChain Supervisor.
• Ensure compliance with Trust Standing Financial Instruction (SFIs) and policies.

About us

Procurement & Supply Chain is part of One Lancashire and South Cumbria, hosted by EastLancashire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.The team provide services to:

• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust,
• Atlas BFW Management Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals),
• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust,
• Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

This job is based on-site at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria.

Job responsibilities

Please see the detailed Job Description & Person Specification for full details.

The role is based at Furness General Hospital, Barrow.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE English/Maths Grade C/4 or equivalent level/or relevant experience
• ECDL or relevant experience CIPS level 2

Experience

• Experience of a customer service-related department or similar environment
• Experience of working in/with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience of Supply Chain stock control or purchasing/supply
• Experience of working within a Stock Control, Purchase, supply / logistics environment
• Experience of Purchase Order/stock control systems

Knowledge

• Organisation, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Good working knowledge of software packages including Microsoft Office & Excel
• Proven numeracy and literacy skills including attention to detail
• Experience of working in NHS other public sector

Practical/Physical Skills

• Self-motivated Team player
• Resilient
• Flexible, use of own initiative & work unsupervised
• Ability to communicate at all levels
• Ability to work under pressure
• Previous manual handling training

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.