Job summary
Your Hospitals Need You! Not all superheroes wear capes, some are even Hospital Engineers.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) are seeking a highly motivated Estates Engineering Stores Person who will be based in the Estates Department Stores at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston. The post holder will be required to play a proactive part within the Estates Management Team to meet Trust objectives in a safe, cost effective, efficient manner in compliance with legislation and good practice.
There is no better time to join the team at ULHT, we are developing our operational estates team in order to support the Trust on its continuous development plan, our aims and ambitions are set high and we want you to be part of the developing journey with us. Have you got the ambition to make your hospital a better place for the community? Have you got the passion about engineering? Are you wanting to learn new skills and become a true rounded engineer with skills in which some areas are only specialist in the Healthcare, if this sounds like a challenge you are looking for then apply today.
We know you may be able to earn more elsewhere - but what we offer you is job security, stability, development, a strong team focused environment where you will feel a sense of belonging. Although, better than all of that, is the chance to really give something back to the NHS with the skills, knowledge, experience and attributes you have to help us achieve outstanding care personally delivered.
Main duties of the job
Job Responsibilities:
- Day to Day stores management
- Control of stock ensuring procedures are in place for accepting goods from suppliers and allocating stock to estates teams in a manner which can be auditable and traced
- Ordering and management of stock levels
- Review of stock and non stock products ensuring types of stock adapt to the changes of the engineering environment such as where new products may be installed, the estates stock has a level of stock control for new essential parts
- Conduct Weekly Audits
- Negotiate with suppliers, ensuring value for money
- Ordering and financial control in line with Trust Standing Financial instructions
- Liaise with procurement services for support of stock and purchasing control
- Maintain accurate records of stock, including the receipting of goods received and issuing of stock against appropriate task reference numbers.
- Maintain a legible, tidy environment of stores and stock
- Maintain COSHH control when ordering chemicals, paints etc and ensuring COSHH data is available for all such products
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description, and if you like what you see, then apply today. Dont miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description, and if you like what you see, then apply today. Dont miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2 or equivalent in an Engineering related or material management discipline
- Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training
- Demonstrable extensive experience of Estates stores management in a similar size organisation
Previous Experience
Essential
- Must have experience and able to use a variety of computer software systems for the purpose of stock and stores management
- Experience in the management and development of stores and stock control within a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation.
Desirable
- Experience of maintenance or stores management in a hospital environment.
Evidence of Particular Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
- Good understanding of general regulations, and associated safety procedures
- Able to work safely and have knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment
- Work co-operatively with colleagues
- Ability to work with minimum of guidance
- Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks
- Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers
Desirable
- Be able to work within a pressured environment
- Evidence of self-advancement
- Able to act efficiently taking a 'hands on' role in an emergency
- Imaginative outlook
- Work on own initiative
- Confident
- Management of contractors
- Experience of working in a large organisation
- Experienced in development of procedures
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Good interpersonal skills
- Versatile and flexible in approach
- Self-starter
- Physically fit
- Capable of meeting manual handling criteria
- Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions
- Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries
- Able to cross site travel
- Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
- Will take part in the Estates On-Call Rota
- Must have full driving licence for cars and access to own vehicle for work attendance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2 or equivalent in an Engineering related or material management discipline
- Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training
- Demonstrable extensive experience of Estates stores management in a similar size organisation
Previous Experience
Essential
- Must have experience and able to use a variety of computer software systems for the purpose of stock and stores management
- Experience in the management and development of stores and stock control within a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation.
Desirable
- Experience of maintenance or stores management in a hospital environment.
Evidence of Particular Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
- Good understanding of general regulations, and associated safety procedures
- Able to work safely and have knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment
- Work co-operatively with colleagues
- Ability to work with minimum of guidance
- Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks
- Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers
Desirable
- Be able to work within a pressured environment
- Evidence of self-advancement
- Able to act efficiently taking a 'hands on' role in an emergency
- Imaginative outlook
- Work on own initiative
- Confident
- Management of contractors
- Experience of working in a large organisation
- Experienced in development of procedures
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Good interpersonal skills
- Versatile and flexible in approach
- Self-starter
- Physically fit
- Capable of meeting manual handling criteria
- Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions
- Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries
- Able to cross site travel
- Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
- Will take part in the Estates On-Call Rota
- Must have full driving licence for cars and access to own vehicle for work attendance.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
