Supply Chain Assistant

Job summary

Band 3 Supply Chain Assistant - PICU (Paediatric Intensive Care Unit) We are seeking a motivated and organised Band 3 Supply Chain Assistant to join our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in supporting frontline clinical services by ensuring the timely provision and effective management of essential supplies and equipment. Working as part of the Supply Chain and Critical Care teams, you will deliver a fully managed materials management service for both stock and non-stock products, helping to ensure uninterrupted patient care within a fast-paced and high-acuity environment.

Main duties of the job

• Receive, unload and safely store all PICU medical, surgical, pharmacy stock items, and equipment from stores, in the appropriate areas ensuring that stock is rotated, in date and that packaging is safely disposed.
• Assist with maintaining the cleanliness of all areas of PICU especially storage areas and including stock rotation.
• To ensure that clinical storage areas are stocked appropriately and regularly topped up, making sure that there is sufficient stock at the weekends.
• To assist in the monitoring, purchasing, tracking of orders, receipt and distribution of all medical and surgical items for PICU. To raise non-stock requisitions to suppliers.
• Monitor stock levels and generate stock orders daily, to replenish items used by PICU staff, via electronic data capture in accordance with published schedules.
• To maintain a system of ordering/stock control that can be undertaken by other person in post holder's absence.
• To assist the PICU Procurement Manager to identify and remove product recalls from the stores area and to re-order suitable alternatives in accordance with NHS guidelines. To order and deal with the delivery of urgent orders to ensure continuity of service.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Childrens Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH

Employer's website

https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Birmingham Childrens Hospital

Steelhouse Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH

Employer's website

https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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