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Job summary

Main area
Logistics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
190-8299-DIR-A
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sheffield Childrens Hospital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/11/2024 23:59
Interview date
14/11/2024

Employer heading

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Assistant Logistics Manager

NHS AfC: Band 4

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

A vacancy has arisen for an Assistant Logistics Manager, based within the Procurement Department. The post-holder will be employed and managed by Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be required to oversee an efficient, cost effective, timely and courteous Materials Management and Receipt and Distribution service to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust. This post covers a range of tasks, which require the exercise of initiative.

 

Main duties of the job

To provide routine replenishment of goods to designated end user departments:

  • with an acceptable quality of service
  • at lowest possible operating cost
  • with minimal working capital tied up in stock
  • to ensure integration with the Added Value Productivity and Efficiency programme. 

 

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of its staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.

The Procurement department provides procurement and supply chain services to the Trust. The department’s procurement teams take responsibility for developing strategies to meet the procurement needs of individual directorates and the Trust as a whole, and for delivering measurable savings from revenue expenditure in line with the Trust’s formal Savings Plan. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an analyst to join the Procurement department; a role which will be pivotal in delivering substantial savings to the Trust.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to GCSE grade C/4 and above (Maths and English) or equivalent qualification/ experience.
  • NVQ3 (eg AA340) or equivalent qualification/ experience or working towards/ability to work towards.
  • Diploma in Business Admin (eg AA320) or adequate experience
  • Procurement/ Supply Chain Logistics qualifications eg MCIPS, MILT or ability to meet these

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience in a comparable customer-orientated operational environment.
  • Extensive experience in electronic stock control systems
  • Experience of controlling stock levels.
  • Experience of Inventory Management software
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing staff.
  • Experience of dealing with suppliers

Further Training

Essential criteria
  • Management/supervision training and ability to work towards further qualifications
Desirable criteria
  • Project Management training
  • Excel, Access spreadsheet training

Special Skills/Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Analytical skills (numerical)
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
  • Interpersonal skills: impact and influence
  • Ability to prioritise own workload and use initiative.
  • Resilient
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership skills and/or experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Darren Carnall
Job title
Head of Logistics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2713495
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