Supply Chain Assistant - NHS
To supervise the Receipt & Delivery team and Renal & Dietetic Stores Assistant, ensuring appropriate balanced workloads, and providing training, support and guidance for the team. To deliver comprehensive Receipt & Delivery/Dietetic and Renal services ensuring orders are correctly receipted on the Trust systems to allow for invoices to be paid without delay and deliveries for goods across the Trust are made in a timely manner to prevent delays or cancellations to clinics/procedures.
To keep and maintain accurate records for goods received / delivered / returned for traceability purposes. To efficiently plan and monitor the use of available resources. To contribute to the delivery of highly effective, compliant and customer focussed services, meeting the Trusts requirements.To provide a full materials management service to all patient clinical areas using appropriate stock control and re-ordering systems. To ensure the correct use of PDAs to scan product bar codes, collect stock information and download for purchase order processing via NHS Supply Chain, and E-Procurement System.
To assist on the resolution of purchase order/ delivery/ invoice variances and disputes. To contribute to the delivery of highly effective compliant and customer focussed supply chain services, which meets the Trusts procurement and materials management Requirements, including the Cost Improvement Plan (CIP) Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details.
We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received. MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.
By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. 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 aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Upon commencing employment with the Trust, all employees (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are subject to a probationary period lasting a period of six months with an option to extend for a further six months to a total of 12 months.