Theatres Inventory Management Assistant

Job summary

Job Summary Looking for the next step in your career? Excellent pay, annual reviews, Health & Wellbeing support, Staff Discounts, Excellent holiday/leave allowance...What's not to love?!In this role, you will be part of a team staff that provides the Materials Management service for Leeds Teaching Hospitals. This role is customer facing and supporting both procurement and clinical colleagues. Reporting into the Materials Management Supervisor, you will be responsible for the provision of a Materials Management service to Theatres within the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI). This is one of the more manual roles within Supplies as it involves moving/handling of cages, pushing/pulling-you'll get your steps in! As well as some office based work. Attention to detail's key. This is a busy area so you will need to be organised and show strong confident communication skills when working with end users especially when urgent orders are needed. You need to be physically fit, this job will involve manual handling, including lifting. You need to be adaptable to change, sometimes at short notice. Accountability is key in this role-you will be given responsibility for your own areas, you will build a rapport with Clinicians and be their main point of contact. Ensure stock is maintained at the appropriate levels using hand held data capture devices. Distribution of goods as required to each location, putting away stock and managing store rooms to agreed standards.

Main duties of the job

Why you should join our Team We are proud of our diverse workforce and your health & wellbeing is a priority. We have Mental Health First Aiders, Health & Wellbeing Champions, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Champions and Freedom to Speak up Champions. The Trust offers a Viv-up Employee Assistance Helpline, which runs 24/7 x 365., Money Buddies, Chaplaincy (Multi-Faith and without Religion), We have an LGBTQ+ network, we are positive about Menopause, we aim to be Neuroinclusive. The team you'll be working with is made up of 4 full time and 2 part time Materials Management Assistants, a Materials Management Supervisor and a Specialist Inventory Supply Chain Manager. You will be working in Theatre stores and entering Theatres when required/appropriate to do so. Materials Management forms part of the wider Supplies & Procurement Department, made up of almost 150 people.

Job responsibilities

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.