Employer: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Telford Place
Town: Crawley
Salary: £23,615 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Stores Assistant / Drivers
NHS AfC: Band 2
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission. Our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provides services to 4.9 million people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year.
Job overview
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week - 6 months fixed term contract.
The role of the department is to support the clinical delivery within the Trust through the management and timely delivery of equipment and consumables through an effective logistics chain.
You will be responsible for providing support to the Logistics function by undertaking general IT Admin, Store/Warehouse duties, picking orders, restocking, and delivering goods to ensure the effective and efficient supply chain and Logistics service is maintained to all areas of the trust.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will:
* Accurately receipt/place orders either manually or electronically to maintain stock levels of NHS orders, consumables, equipment, uniform (including new starter packs), medicines (including controlled drugs (CDs)) in the store area whilst maintaining clear audit trails and ensuring regular stock rotation to minimise waste.
* Report any discrepancies in deliveries in a timely manner.
* Ensure that all stocks in the warehouse are secure, safely positioned, and do not represent a hazard to others, taking full account of Health & Safety regulations at all times, and keeping the stores area clean and tidy.
* Ensure that all stocks, during transportation or delivery, are secure, safely positioned, and do not represent a hazard to others, disposing of waste in the appropriate manner.
* Pick consumables, medicines, and controlled drugs in preparation for delivery.
* Prepare the van for deliveries, i.e. loading with consumables, drug pouches, controlled drugs, equipment, and uniforms on a daily basis employing good manual handling techniques.
* Be responsible for the security and safe transport of controlled drugs and other medicines whilst in transit.
Working for our organisation
* Option to join NHS pension scheme
* A minimum of 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
* Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
* Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
* Access to occupational health and counselling services.
* Back up buddy App
* Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will hold a good standard of education along with good Basic IT Skills and be able to use Microsoft Office.
Previous Stores/Warehouse and NHS experience is desirable together with multi-drop delivery.
A good level of physical fitness is a must due to heavy lifting, pushing & pulling of stock and deliveries.
The ability to work unsupervised and to organise your workload is a vital requirement of the role, together with good communication and excellent interpersonal skills.
A flexible and adaptable approach will ensure that you will respond to the requirements and challenges of the logistical role.
Person specification
* Physically Fit.
* C1 driving licence.
* IT Skills.
* NHS Experience.
* Multi Drop Deliveries.
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.
For patient-facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front-line staff.
All positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief.
When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.
The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work-related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.
If you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [emailprotected] stating the vacancy reference number.
Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for this particular occasion.
Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you to check your Trac Jobs account regularly.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason, we recommend completing your application as early as possible.
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