Supply Chain Assistant - UK Visa Sponsorship

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Job summary

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge invites applicants for a Band 3 Supply Chain Assistant within the Estates and Facilities team. You will help ensure timely delivery of medical and non-medical materials, manage stock levels and processing of orders to wards and departments.

You will collaborate with clinical staff and suppliers, maintain stock accuracy and comply with safety and infection control standards, while prioritising workload in a busy healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Progress toward NVQ Level 2 or equivalent.
• Experience with stock control in healthcare settings is desirable.
• Able to priorities and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock levels and ensure consumables are delivered to wards and departments.
• Put away merchandise and rotate stock to keep it fresh.
• Reconcile delivery notes and seek waste-reduction opportunities.
• Collaborate with clinical staff, suppliers and procurement to meet department needs.
• Adhere to safety, infection control standards and internal procedures.

Skills

Stock control

Procurement

Communication

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Education

NVQ Level 2 (progress)

Tools

Stock management systems

Job description

Supply Chain Assistant Jobs 2026 – Ultimate UK Visa Sponsorship Opportunity

Supply Chain Assistant Jobs 2026 at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. Explore this NHS opportunity with Skilled Worker sponsorship and apply for a role supporting healthcare operations.

About the job

Join the team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust awarded ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC. As a Band 3 Supply Chain Assistant, you will be a key member of our Estates and Facilities team, ensuring the smooth operation of the vital delivery of medical and non-medical materials that directly influence on the treatment of our patients. This function is vital for effective stock control and first quality support to clinical areas across the hospital.

If you’re motivated by the chance to make a profound impact on healthcare operations, have an eye for detail, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere, we’d love to hear from you! Here is your chance to join an innovative team at the premier heart and lungs specialist hospital in the UK, where your work will assist life-changing patient care.

Principal roles, obligations & required skills

As a Supply Chain Assistant you will be an integral part of our Materials Management service, helping to keep things running smoothly. You will be responsible for controlling stock levels, processing orders and ensuring consumables are delivered to wards and departments in a timely manner.

The key responsibilities are to put away merchandise, rotate stock to keep it fresh, reconcile delivery notes and spot chances to decrease waste and enhance efficiency.

This role is all about collaboration. You will collaborate with clinical staff, suppliers and the procurement team to satisfy department demands, ensure compliance with safety and infection control standards and address supply concerns quickly. Must have excellent communication skills and be detail-oriented and able to prioritise work.

We are searching for a proactive team player with knowledge of stock control or supply chain systems, ideally within the NHS. This gratifying role is a great opportunity for someone with expertise of procurement processes, manual handling and a client driven approach.

Who we are

Royal Papworth facility NHS Foundation Trust is the UK’s top heart and lung center, caring for more than 50,000 patients a year in its brand new, state-of-the-art facility in Cambridge. We are the leading center in the UK for heart and/or lung transplants and carried out the first successful heart transplant in the UK in 1979. It also provides emergency heart attack therapy, sleep center care and is one of only five centers countrywide for patients suffering with acute respiratory failure.

The Trust is based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Europe’s largest center of medical research and health science, and is at the heart of therapies of the future. Royal Papworth was the first hospital trust in the UK to be rated exceptional in all five areas reviewed by the Care Quality Commission – and it still has that status today. Compassion, excellence & cooperation are principles that support all we do within the Trust and are expected to be demonstrated in the day to day duties & interactions of all people joining the team. “We are proud of our diverse workforce at Royal Papworth and we encourage people to be themselves.

The Trust is committed to diversity and accepts applications from all sections of the community irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Applicants with impairments will be invited to go for interview, subject to meeting the minimum post criteria.

On this page you will find a Role Profile that provides an overview of the hospital and comprehensive specifics about the role. We urge that you read this and refer to it as you fill out your application.

Trust Values: Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration

How will you meet these Trust Values?

If you want to know more about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Specification for the Person

Qualifications (Supply Chain Assistant)

Preferred Qualifications

Progress toward NVQ Level 2 or equivalent

Experience (Supply Chain Assistant)

Important

All information confidentiality

Ability to absorb instructions and operate as part of a team

Ability to work in a pressurised environment

Ability to verbally convey information

Ability to read, write and record information pertinent to the job.

More criteria

Must-haves

The chosen candidate will also be able to demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and cooperation.

DBS Check (Disclosure and Barring Service)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will therefore need a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sponsor Certificate

job seekers wishing to apply for current openings We also welcome skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK and will be examined with all other applications. For more information, please visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.

Since 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance to the UK have been required to provide a criminal record certificate from any nation where they have lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the last 10 years. This condition also applies to adult dependants (aged over 18). You can find guidance on Criminal records checks for overseas candidates here.

Contact

For help with your application please contact:

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, East of England, England

174 High Street,North London, E6 2JA,United Kingdom