Stores Assistant
| Posting date: | 08 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE9 3GE |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5197 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Croft Depot, Arbor Road, Croft, Leicestershire, LE9 3GE
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum (pro-rata for part time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 25th May 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC - in person
About the Role
As Stores Assistant you will assist with planning and managing stock levels for all stores inventory items, ensuring efficient stock layout, maximising utilisation of space, and robust operating procedures, including stock control, internal requisition of goods and efficient delivery service to depots and direct to sites as appropriate. You will work with the procurement team to ensure compliance with purchase ordering and receipting rules.
You will verify the quality and quantity of deliveries received for all operational depots, ensuring remote staff follow agreed procedures, and negotiating with suppliers regarding damage reports and invoice queries
You will observe and enforce safe working practices within the stores and depot environments, giving regard to statutory legislation, such as COSHH Regulations, Health and Safety and Procurement best practice and ensure the maintenance of detailed, accurate stores documentation including computerised records, corporate and localised systems.
You will process and input to systems, and generate reports as required, take responsibility for localised training and support the storekeepers and any other delegated staff within the depot and stores environment.
This role is a “Safety Critical Post” and, consequently, subject to random drug and alcohol testing in accordance with our policies and procedures. A copy of our Substance Misuse Policy and Procedure is available upon request.
About You
To apply for this post, you must hold or have;
- GCSE Grades A –C or equivalent in Maths and English (NVQ Level 2) and BTEC HNC / Higher in a technical or administrative field,
OR
Demonstrable evidence of the skills & experience as outlined in the Job Specification, together with a commitment to attain the required qualifications.
- Experience of working in an office (or stores) environment using Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel and Access. Outlook, PowerPoint and of entering and retrieving data on a computer.
- Good numeracy, verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of stores and stock control processes, including financial implications of decisions and practices and Waste Management regulations. You have knowledge of storekeeping and inventory management, administrative functions & of using ICT systems and business processes to support the efficient delivery of services.
- It would be ideal, but not essential if you have Forklift/Telehandler experience.
- Experience of working as part of a team, dealing with internal and external customers on the telephone and face to face and handling conflicting demands.
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work; you are good at problem solving & analysis and you are willing to be flexible, learn and undertake a variety of different tasks.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Nikki Jiggins, Stores & Depot Supervisor
Telephone: 0116 3052342
Email: nikki.jiggins@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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