Job vacancy: Materials Management Assistant - WGH, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Kendal | trac.jobs

Job summary Main area Scan 4 Safety Materials Management Assistant Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 435-1LSC-UHMBT-021-26 Employer East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Westmorland General Hopsital Town Kendal Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59 Employer heading Materials Management Assistant - WGH NHS AfC: Band 3 Lancashire and South Cumbria Provider Collaborative (OneLsc) The five provider NHS trusts in Lancashire and South Cumbria are working together as partners, delivering joint priorities to improve health and healthcare. Together, we aim to drive up quality by sharing skills and best practice, pooling our resources and standardising the way we work to reduce variation and duplication. We want to ensure patients have equal access to the same high-quality care wherever they live. We also want our colleagues to have the same high-quality experience wherever they work. One Lancashire and South Cumbria (One LSC) and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability. Job overview The Trust is embarking on an exciting period of change as we implement Scan4Safety across a number of key wards and departments at the Trust, initially at Westmorland General Hospital. The implementation of Scan4Safety will re-shape the role of logistics and supply chain across the local health economy to ensure the service is fit for purpose, in line with best practice and can deliver value and customer satisfaction in a sustainable manner. The One Lancashire and South Cumbria Procurement Department is hosted by East Lancashire NHS Trust but staff are based across the region.  The vision is to deliver an excellent procurement and logistics service, with the key focus on continuous improvement, and delivery of value for money to include savings, efficiencies and improvement of outcomes for patients. This post is based within University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust and reports to the Logistics & Supply Chain Site Manager at Westmorland General Hospital. Main duties of the job MAIN DUTIES & KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: To assist in the implementation and maintenance of a materials managed service, undertaking the day to day ordering activity on behalf of the customer. Replenishing goods at theatre and departmental level using bar code systems as appropriate. Receive, check and put away deliveries ordered via materials management service. Ensuring that items are rotated and do not exceed expiry dates, stored in the correct location and the store area left tidy. The position requires physical effort often in confined spaces on a daily b