Warehouse Operative - Materials Management

Warehouse Operative - Materials Management

NHS Shared Business Services

Salary: £19,000pa plus 25days Holiday, Pension, Life Assurance and 3% flexible benefits

Location: Cambridge

Role overview

We are looking for an adaptable warehouse operative to provide an efficient, cost effective, timely and courteous Service to the wards and departments within Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Trust).

This will include the management of stock to agreed levels, data input and processing of orders, liaison with customers, other procurement colleagues and NHS logistics.

This is physically demanding role which this includes walking, long periods of standing, stretching, working in confined areas, climbing to low level heights, and movement of cages within the ward areas.

Key responsibilities

• Ordering of non-supply chain products with NHS Supply Chain technology.
• Undertake the data capture of orders using a hand held barcode reader, and transmission of these orders to the supplier via the Electronic Demand Capture (EDC) and Electronic Demand capture (EDC) Gold interface links with NHS Supply Chain.
• Liaise with Trust departmental staff regarding operation of EDC Gold.
• Responsible for the timely input of data to ensure continuity of supply.
• Provide receipt and distribution services, including unpacking and checking delivered items against delivery/order information, taking corrective action where necessary and maintaining audit records.
• Carry out stock level reviews of Material Management products at ward/ department level, to include appropriate stock rotation and routine housekeeping.
• Inform customers of any product changes or shortages and actively source alternatives.
• Assist with high urgency product recalls following safety alerts.
• Assist with removal, return or disposal of excess or redundant stock.
• Maintain accurate paper and electronic records and filing systems and provide administrative support, filing, photocopying, collating of information and other associated duties.
• Ensure communication of information within the Materials Management team and share best practice operationally; act and participate as a member of the wider Procurement team, assisting colleagues within other areas of the department as required and attending departmental update meetings as required.

Essential skills

• 4 GCSEs (grades A-C) or equivalent
• High attention to detail
• Have experience of working in a customer care environment
• Self motivated and able to work on own initiative
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to communicate clearly and with diplomacy
• Ability to work as part of a team also be flexible and trustworthy
• Flexible approach to the needs of the department

Desirable

• Experience within an NHS environment
• An understanding of Oracle
• Ability to use bar code scanners

About us

Established in 2005, we are now the UK's leading provider of business services to the NHS, which include Finance & Accounting, Procurement and Employment Services. We currently work with 100% of the NHS Commissioning organisations and over a third of NHS Trusts, providing a high level of governance and accountability for around £100 billion of NHS spend annually. We also provide a full range of solutions for NHS Provider organisations, ensuring cost improvements and efficiency savings, as well as improved data management and reporting.

NHS Shared Business Services is a unique joint venture between the Department of Health and Sopra Steria. We're proud to be the only company which is part of the NHS family, with over 30% of the market using one or more of our products. Our mission is to deliver £1 billion savings back to the NHS by 2020. We've already delivered audited savings of over £400 million to our NHS clients.

As an organisation one of our strategic objectives is to become a Great Place to Work, with a score of 70+. To ensure we achieve our aim we ensure our people are at the centre of our development.

NHS Shared Business Services is committed to establishing and maintaining a working environment which is free from discrimination and values all employees as individuals. All applicants and employees are selected, recruited, trained and promoted solely on the basis of their skills and behaviour.

Find out more

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