Job summary
Join our dynamic Theatres and Critical Care (TCCA) team as a vital member ensuring the seamless operation and delivery of exceptional patient care. As a key player, you will maintain stock levels through regular audits and orders, collaborating with the entire stores team. This role involves both physical activities and the use of technology, with full training provided.
Effective communication with a diverse range of healthcare professionals and suppliers is crucial, as is a commitment to teamwork and customer service. Your responsibilities will also include safe transport, accurate record-keeping, and adherence to health and safety standards. Be part of a supportive environment where your contributions directly impact patient care and service improvement.
Main duties of the job
As a Stores Assistant in the TCCA Department, your key duties involve maintaining optimal stock levels to support excellent patient care. This includes performing regular stock takes and audits, ordering supplies, and utilizing bar code readers and computer systems for inventory management. You will engage in physical tasks such as manual handling and transporting items, adhering to safety standards and using proper techniques. Managing damaged or outdated items and maintaining accurate records in line with hospital policies are also crucial responsibilities.
Effective communication is essential, as you will interact with a diverse range of healthcare professionals and suppliers to fulfil stock needs and resolve issues. Proficiency in both verbal and written communication is necessary for updating the stores team and negotiating stock requisitions. Collaboration within the storekeeping team is vital to ensure continuous cover during leave periods. We seek candidates with strong customer service skills, teamwork abilities, and experience in similar roles, particularly within healthcare settings. Familiarity with stock management systems and the ability to adapt to new technologies are also important. Full training will be provided to help you excel in this role.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. NVQ level 3 / equivalent qualification or equivalent experience, skills and knowledge
Experience
Essential
2. Experience in a similar role
3. Experience in planning and organisation of time
4. Experience of managing resources within defined budgets and financial constraints
5. Good written and verbal communication skills using sensitivity and influential skills when discussing stock control
6. Standard keyboard skills
7. Manual handling abilities
8. Ability to keep clear, concise and accurate records
9. Ability to trouble shoot when issues are encountered
10. Ability to implement new and changes departmental policies and processes
11. Ability to treat all information confidentially
12. Ability to work within a team and take instruction and direction
13. Support new team members in on the job learning and local induction
14. Ability to work under pressure and to tight time scales
15. Ability to concentrate for extended
16. Knowledge of stock control, ordering and storage
Desirable
17. Previous experience of working within the NHS
18. Knowledge of equipment used in Theatres and Critical Care
19. Knowledge of using manual handling equipment
20. Completion of stock take
Additional Criteria
Essential
21. Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration