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Inventory Officer | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2025 |
| Location: | Hexham, NE46 1QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7116685/319-7116685LT |
Summary
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious, self-motivated individual to work in our Inventory management team. There are two roles within the Inventory Team, based at Hexham General Hospital. The post holder will provide an Inventory management service for the Theatre store, on which full training will be given.
Although these vacancies are based at Hexham General Hospital the Theatres stores is currently going through a refurbishment and will reopen Spring 2026. Therefore, initially the successful candidates will be expected to work at one of our other sites which will be agreed at interview.
Reporting to the Inventory Team Leader, you will ensure that adequate stock levels of medical and non-medical products are maintained in the theatre stores. This will be achieved by counting and ordering a defined range of products using a bar code reader, and also checking and putting away the received goods. You will review stock usage reports and liaise with Theatre Managers to keep adequate agreed stock levels.
You will also be expected to provide cover to the hospital stores as and when required. These duties will include receiving goods from suppliers, checking the quantity and quality of the goods, receipt of orders into the Trust Ordering System and the completion of any necessary documentation.
You should have experience of stock replenishment and / or working in a stores environment. You should have good interpersonal skills, be customer facing with a helpful, friendly and flexible attitude. You should be PC literate with experience of entering data into computerised systems. You should be able to use your own initiative, and be able to work alone and well as part of a team. The ability to work to deadlines and communicate with staff at all levels is essential.
You may be required to work at any one of our 4 main hospital sites to provide the Inventory service. A drivers license or ability to travel to those sites would be beneficial.
Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opened a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breath in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
• Carry out full range of usual stores duties which includes receipt unloading, checking quantity and quality of goods delivered and the completion of necessary documentation.
• Ensure that adequate medical and non-medical supplies stock levels are maintained across NHCT. By conducting top-up re-ordering using a bar code reader and liaising with clinical staff to ensure that adequate agreed stock levels are always maintained
• A good level of awareness and understanding of Supplies terminology e.g. Transfer Point, delivery schedules. The post holder will be required to carry out input of data using appropriate computerised stock control systems & use a hand-held scanner
• Deal confidently and helpfully with all levels of staffing within a hospital environment and with outside suppliers.
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Apr 2025
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