Stores Co-ordinator

Job summary

We are excited to advertise the post of Therapy Store Co-ordinator based at the Royal Derby Hospital. You will work within the excellent Therapy Stores Team including the Therapy Store Supervisor and Level 2 Inpatient Therapy team. This role is key in the maintenance of stored Therapy equipment and delivery of issued equipment to patients across the Royal Derby Hospital and across UHDB sites.

The successful candidate would have excellent communications and co-ordination skills engaging with our external equipment providers, Therapists and patients. The role will support a seamless provision of equipment from our equipment partners to our peripheral equipment store an ultimately through to our service users. In doing so you'll be tasked with ensuring the quality and safe provision of Therapy equipment in line with Therapy assessments and prescription. This role in turn is pivotal in supporting patients equipment needs and the timely discharge of patients from the hospital setting.

Main duties of the job

You will be directly responsible for the receipt, checking and storage of goods received into the Therapy Equipment Store as well as the dispatch of equipment out across to requesting departments.

A key role of the post is the entering of requisition data into the electronic equipment system on behalf of Therapy staff within the trust involving the handling and inputting of confidential patient data.

You will be required to second check equipment at point of supply for safety and suitability for issue.

The post holder will be required to place regular and timely equipment orders that replenishes and maintains stock for therapy issue to patients. The role is also key in the receiving of stock on delivery days and transferring of equipment to the main store.

The maintenance of stock control is required by auditing volume of equipment used and balancing stock in and out responding to variations in demand.

The occasional collection and/or delivery of urgently required stock from the supplier's depot, LRCH or patient homes is required. This involves driving the therapy department pool car and holding a driving licence is required for role.

Closing date of advert: 20 March 2025

Date of interview: 2 April 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

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

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