Job Description:
Supplies Assistant
Cromwell Hospital, London SW5 0TU
Permanent
Circa £25,000 depending on experience + Excellent benefits
Full time hours – 37.5 (Shifts are 9am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday)
We make health happen.
Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each day.
Role Overview
As a Supplies Assistant you will provide an efficient and high-quality stock management service to all internal customers within the hospital with ‘just in time’ approach. You will provide supplies to the hospital departments, optimise stock levels maintained and always seeking new ways to reduce on site stock holding requirement
You’ll help us make health happen by:
1. Working within a team of Supplies Assistants across the hospital
2. Supporting/Covering Theatre Inventory Assistant as and when required
3. Signing for all deliveries into the stores department and provide a timely, accurate and efficient delivery service within the hospital
4. Receipt, storage, Issue, and distribution of all stock and non-stock items with appropriate use of manual and computerised system
5. Matching delivery notes against orders and resolve any stock or delivery discrepancies
6. Arranging for the return of goods which have been received faulty or damaged, or have been ordered in error, or are duplicate delivery
7. Processing orders for main stores, hospital and theatres as required by Stores Supervisor/Inventory Manager
8. Topping up hospital stock via manual top-up system
9. Regularly cycle counting of stock in stores and hospital as required
10. Stock rotation of shelf items in the main Stores, wards and other stock areas in the hospital as required
11. Being responsible in ensuring all active stock lines have a correspondence bin location
12. Identifying slow or non-moving stock to the Supervisor
13. Liaising with Purchasing for any supplies that cannot be sourced from existing supplier contracts to ensure that noncontract expenditure is minimised
14. Dealing with day-to-day Inventory queries for the hospital
15. Supporting yearly external stock take and any updates because of the stock take
16. To undertake any other ad hoc duties as requested by the Inventory Manager or Supervisor
17. Adhering to corporate and hospital policies and procedures
18. Assisting H&S officer and Inventory with MHRA Alerts for hospital stock
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
19. Some logistic experience will be preferable
20. Effective communication at the team level with good interpersonal skills and the ability to create strong supporting relationships with internal customers.
21. A systematic, organised approach to work
22. Good numeracy skills and the drive to work with attention to detail
23. The ability to manage their own workload to a consistently high standard and to work as part of a team or independently
24. A strong customer service ethic
25. Ability to own management of Stores stock and any other area in the hospital with stock by ensuring regular cycle counting and review of stock levels
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
26. 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
27. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
28. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
29. Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
30. Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.