About this role
Job summary
The South West London Procurement Partnership came together on 1st April 2021 as a new single procurement service acting directly on behalf of; Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, Epsom & St. Helier NHS Trust., Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and St. George's NHS Foundation Trust whilst also providing services to the wider South West London integrated care system. The new service is hosted by St. George's NHS Foundation Trust.
The purpose of the service is to deliver better outcomes for partners through delivery at scale benefits for patients, staff and the wider health economy. The creation of the South West London Procurement Partnership is a critical foundation in developing the common infrastructure that will enable the wider place-based and system-level transformation in patient care which is at the heart of all 4 Trusts' strategic aims; and support increased financial sustainability.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the service and to play a crucial role in realising our objectives.
We are looking to recruit a Materials Management Officer to work in the Central Stores team at St George's Hospital.
The successful candidate will be required to manage and order stock for clinical areas they have assigned to them, liaise with suppliers, deliver stock to areas, undertake stock audit of areas and undertake any other ad-hoc duties as and when required.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary
To contribute to the delivery of the Supply Chain and Logistics function at the hospital as follows:
Provide a fully managed Supply Chain and Logistics replenishment service for stock and non-stock products to user departments.
Ensure that all stocks are managed appropriately and cost effectively, meeting the needs of user departments and that all products are replenished in accordance with agreed processes, policies and procedures.
Ensure non-stock products received in Receipts and Despatch are distributed to user departments.
About us
With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Job description Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
-GCSE Maths level education D or above; or equivalent experience
Experience Essential
Experience of using a P2P system. Working knowledge of receipt and despatch environment and processes Ability to cross-check reference paperwork with systems information Reconciliation and query resolution Experience of using an Inventory Management System
Desirable
Logistics experience within an NHS Service Knowledge of non-medical and medical products
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.
Employer details Employer name St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address St George's University Hospital
Blackshaw Road
Tooting
SW17 0QT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)