Logistics Assistant

Job summary

To work as part of the logistics team, responsible for providing a range of FM support services in the hospital environment and Offsite Warehouse. This will involve carrying out the following Logistics functions:

• Receipt and Distribution of Healthcare related products

• Receipting and delivering of goods in both the R&D department, and the warehouse.
• Loading and dispatching of the Automated Guided vehicles (AGV)

• Working in a supportive capacity within the logistics services
• Sorting, delivering, and franking internal and external Post

• Accurate put away or stock audits of stock in areas managed by the Materials Management Team
• Ordering and management of linen stock in all areas managed by the Linen service
• Processing uniform orders for all Trust new starters

A Full, Clean, UK Manual Driving license is essential for this post. Please do not apply if you do not have a UK license to drive a manual vehicle.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for handling of goods from receipt to final delivery point in a safe, efficient, effective and professional manner, including but not limited to:
• Transferring of goods from delivery vehicles, checking of quantities against order/delivery note/s
• Signing for receipt of goods (subject to quantities being satisfactory)
• Receipting GRN on a computer.
• Filing all documents in numerical order
• Delivery of goods and other items to wards and departments and obtaining in line with policy a signature from the recipient.
• Delivery of goods within retained estate
• Responsible for the collection of goods and items from individual wards and departments as and when specified by the Receipt and Distribution Services Manager, in a safe, efficient, effective, and professional manner
• Responsible for processing of orders (i.e. matching delivery notes and goods received).
• Transportation of roll cages, waste bins / carts in and around all levels

About us

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building atSouthmead.

We are an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.

We treat some of the most difficult medical conditions, in an increasingly complex and growing patient population, made even more complex by the challenges we face due to Covid-19. Yet we are confident in our ability to be ready for the next five years, even in these uncertain times. This is thanks to our understanding of the financial, capital and transformation actions we will need to take to deliver our ambitious strategy and objectives launched at the start of the year. Not only will we continue to increase our offer to you, our staff, but will work with you and our partners to makesure we achieve all we set out to do.