Job summary
- Main area
- Logistics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: Some roles are part time. Some are full time
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-CO-6412429
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust-MMUH
- Town
- Smethwick
- Salary
- £22,383 pro rata/per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Logistics Operative
NHS AfC: Band 2
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
The role of the Logistics Operative is to ensure safe and effective movements of goods to support the needs of the Trust.
Products will need to be delivered and collected in a timely fashion in accordance with a daily schedule. Good are to be handled in a safe and efficient method to preserve quality and support safe collection and delivery.
This advert is for a number of part time and full time roles
Main duties of the job
Products will be delivered to the Trust’s hospital sites from a number of suppliers and delivery agents, including NHS Supply Chain. The main duties of the Logistics Operative will include:
- Ensuring all products are checked and signed for.
- Loading, moving and collecting cages (both full and empty) on a daily basis.
- Checking the quality of items and rejecting items that are substandard.
- Collection and removal of waste streams from designated waste points across the sites
- To complete a full Trust-led training programme to ensure all products and waste can be moved, handled, stored and disposed of safely and effectively.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Logistics Operative post is a role that will ensure the safe and efficient movement of various materials and waste throughout the Trust. The Logistics Team is being established to ensure that no team works in isolation, and the Logistics Operative, therefore, may be required to move goods/products, linen, waste, post, sterile equipment and other non-patient-facing materials on a daily basis, working to a defined schedule.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Dealing staff in a helpful and appropriate manner
- Experience of working effectively as a part of busy team
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Multi Drop an advantage
- Automated Goods Vehicle operations
- Previous experience in a stores / warehouse environment
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Basic Mathematics and English qualification or experience of using Mathematics and English in a customer focused environment.
Desirable criteria
- Banksman Training
- MHE licence
- Holds a valid driving license.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Michael Jaquier
- Job title
- Head of Logistics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07727189795
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