Wessex NHS Procurement Limited is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.
This role will be based at The Winchester RHCH
Please note WPL does not hold a Home Office Workers Licence and therefore unable to offer sponsorship
Wessex Procurement Ltd (WPL) are looking for a motivated and reliable Stock Management Officer to join our team at the Royal County Hampshire Hospital in Winchester.
You'll play a key role in supporting our clinical teams by making sure wards and departments always have the right supplies available. Working independently, you'll take ownership of your allocated areas, managing stock levels and using barcode scanning technology to keep everything running smoothly day to day.
At WPL, we play a key role in supporting the NHS in Hampshire, delivering end-to-end procurement and supply chain services for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a wholly owned subsidiary of both Trusts, WPL offers the opportunity to contribute to the wider NHS family and improve healthcare services across the region.
Our services include strategic sourcing, value creation, tendering, contract management, inventory oversight, distribution, and materials management across Southampton, Basingstoke, Winchester, and Andover. Joining WPL means being part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team, working alongside stakeholders to drive innovation, efficiency, and value.
To replenish, receipt, issue and stow stock using Inventory Management System (IMS), ensuring capture of lot number and expiry of products as required. Use IMS systems and devices to record transactional data.
* To perform cycle counts in Inventory Management System as per standard operating procedure.
* Provide advice to customers and liaise with suppliers using persuasive skills to improve performance and delivery within the supply chain service.
* To play an active role in setting up stock profiles to suit clinical requirements. Physically setting out storerooms and reflecting requirements into the computerised materials management system. Actively develops, implements and maintains managed inventory solutions into specialist areas with Stores Lead
* Liaise with procurement to facilitate 'best value' purchase of items required, guiding customers regarding value for money opportunities and responsible for spotting potential savings and recommending courses of action to manager, ensuring savings are recorded using appropriate methods and reported as required to the Stores Lead and relevant clinical lead.
* Raising requisitions for contracted or non-contracted items using appropriate system.
* Deliver, unpack and replenish stock to wards/departments storerooms and/or IMS systems, checking accuracy and ensuring that stock is rotated appropriately.
* To carry out "good housekeeping" duties to ensure tidiness and cleanliness of storerooms and encourage user departments to maintain the standard.
* To provide a liaison service between user departments and suppliers pursuant to providing a quality service by providing specialist supply chain knowledge to maximise clinical outputs, specialist supplier and product knowledge to staff and units as necessary.
* Effectively monitor and replenish consignment, specialised services devices (SSDP) and sale or return stocks held within departments, using applicable reports and tools in line with standard operating procedure.