Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Grade B
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 166-DSFS-6797259
- Employer
- Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- DSFS Ltd - Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £23,254 - £24,855 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Stores Assistant
Grade B
Job overview
DSFS requires a highly motivated Estates Stores Assistant who will be based within the estates department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. The role will work within the estates workshop as part of a team of circa 35 full time staff responsible for carrying out all reactive and planned maintenance safely and in line with the Key Performance Indicators agreed with the Trust. The post-holder will spend the majority of their week managing the estates stores, ensuring that all aspects of the stores are properly run and managed in line with Standing Financial Instructions.
The role will require occasional travel to our customers based outside of Chesterfield Royal Hospital, such as the community clinics that we manage for Royal Primary Care.
Main duties of the job
To control and maintain stock quantities and rotation (where required) including adhering to DSFS Standing Financial Instructions when purchasing stock.
To check all goods are in good order and in date, if items are not then investigate why and resolve the issue.
To be able to (after training) use IT based systems and equipment to deliver and issue stock.
To be responsible for ordering within the department, both in terms of stores items and placing orders for work on behalf of the Estates Management Team.
To be responsible for receiving/checking and receipting of goods delivered to the Estates Department.
Working for our organisation
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Please see below link for the DSFS website.
DSFS - Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Limited | DSFS
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- NVQ3 or equivalent experience within stores.
- Good standard of numeracy and literacy.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to use computer systems effectively.
- Previous experience of working within a construction industry stores environment
- Previous experience of working within a construction industry stores environment
- Experience of carrying out stores stocktakes
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of sign writing packages.
- Experience of raising purchase orders to pay for quoted works or utility bills etc.
- Previous experience of using cloud-based finance and ordering.
- Experience of obtaining best value for money with regards to stores orders.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to quickly learn new skills when taught.
- Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Outlook and Excel.
- Able to setup and run administration systems around estates, such as key ordering, signage printing etc.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of doing ladder inspections.
- Knowledge of H&S and COSHH regulations applicable to stores management.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic, highly motivated and able to determine priorities and achieve them using initiative and with minimal external input.
- Able to communicate effectively with customers in other departments and with hospital and RPC colleagues.
- Committed to continuous improvement and learning.
- Able to operate with high integrity in the work environment
- Flexible and able to adapt to change quickly.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates DSFS Values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Keiran Ashcroft
- Job title
- Head of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 513301
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