Generic Supply Chain Assistant

Job overview

To work within a small team providing a picking, delivery, distribution and collection service within the Distribution Centre Estover, Goods In Department LV 2 and around the Derriford Hospital site.

To make deliveries to offsite locations using departmental transport.

To offload (and load) delivery vehicles using the departmental forklift, and to move goods around the site using the forklift as required.

• Pick and deliver goods for patient care, as per agreed schedule to meet service line demands.

To provide basic support to other members of the Distribution Centre & Goods Inwards team in the event of sickness or absences

Main duties of the job

Delivery of goods to all wards and departments within the 12 floors of Derriford Hospital. Derriford employs @ 12000 people and is a major healthcare provider for the Southwest of England. The Goods Inwards department processes on average, 150 cages of goods consisting of a mixture of external & internal deliveries. Approximately 450 individual packages are received for onward delivery, to the requester during a working day. This does not include major deliveries such as furniture and medical equipment.

Goods Inwards processes deliveries and returns for several ‘off-site’ locations within Plymouth.

The department currently operates from 07:30 to 17:00, Monday to Friday.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Accept deliveries into UHP warehouse & Goods-In
• Carry out Forklift daily health & Safety checks.
• Carry out Transport daily health & Safety checks.
• To stow warehouse stock in line with Trust FIFO guidelines.
• Pick and pack requested medical products as per agreed schedule and point of care requirements.
• To be aware of stock expiry dates and ensure that shortest dated stock is issued first to customers.
• To deliver caged/palletised/loose goods to all Trust units and departments, ensuring they are left as directed in a safe and appropriate place.
• To ensure all required delivery paperwork is correctly sorted, completed, and filed by the end of each day.
• To ensure all types of urgent deliveries are made as appropriate and directed.
• To collect and return goods to Goods Inwards as required.
• To assist with the preparation of goods for delivery to units including the breakdown of mixed cages and palletised deliveries as required.
• To assist with the matching of internal delivery paperwork to goods coming in and putting these goods in the relevant location for onward delivery.
• To ensure the return of empty cages/pallets to the correct storage locations on level 2 for collection by NHSSC, Warehouse or other authorised users.