Job summary
- Main area
- Support Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 177-ELEC-6333526
- Employer
- James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- James Paget University Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Great Yarmouth
- Salary
- £22,383 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
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Theatre Stores Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 2
Patent and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by:
- Putting patients first
- Aiming to get it right
- Recognising that everybody counts
- Doing everything openly and honestly
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Theatre Stores Assistant to support our busy Theatre Stores Team. If you are enthusiastic and highly motivated and would like to join us please continue reading.
Ideally you should have knowledge of previous NHS stores experience along with excellent IT skills and computerized stock management systems.
Candidates must have been educated to a good standard of literacy and numeracy.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate must be able to work under pressure and be able to work on your own initiative working independently prioritizing tasks and their own workload as well as being able to work well within a team.
It is essential that you are physically fit and able to undertake all aspects of manual handling associated with the job role.
We work over 7 days per week providing the service between 0700 - 2100 Monday - Friday and 0800 - 1800 Saturdays and Sundays.
Working for our organisation
We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Receive and unload panniers of operating instruments and sets, supplementary items and other items delivered to Theatre from HSDU, checking sterile packaging and distributing to correct storage place within theatre.
Assist with all theatre ordering: daily , weekly and monthly plus NHS Supplies, Pathology and Pharmacy.
Maintain and adjust stock levels on ORMIS.
Responsible for non-stock requisitioning.
Ensure delivery of goods and communicating out of stock and not available items.
Ensure stock levels are maintained, stock rotated and levels adjusted when necessary to accommodate increased activity. Re-ordering prosthesis as used, maintaining records, liaise with companies/reps and communicating supply problems promptly.
Ensure all storage areas are tidy at all times.
Inform of any additions or variations to the surgical instrument trays and supplementary items, ensuring accurate completion of supporting documentation.
Able to identify supplementary instruments to assist theatre staff to select the correct items.
Any other appropriate duties which may be required to meet the needs of the service.
Person specification
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
- Must be numerate and literate equivalent to GCSE Grade D and above in English and Maths
Desirable criteria
- IT Qualification
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Background knowledge of NHS Stores
Desirable criteria
- Computerised Stock Management
Skills, abilities and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Completion of documentation accurately and legibly
- Good verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
- IT skills
Behavioural Qualities
Essential criteria
- Courteous and Respectful
- Responsive Communication
Desirable criteria
- Flexible to meet 7 day working
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debbie Wilby
- Job title
- Business Support Manager Theatres and HSDU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07552807762
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