Job summary
- Main area
- Fleet
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 278-FPA-0724-CC
- Employer
- South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brighton Make Ready Centre
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Fleet Parts Advisor - Brighton
NHS AfC: Band 4
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
- Band 4 ,NHS Agenda for Change - £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Full Time-37.5 hrs per week
- Permanent contract
- Location- Brighton Make Ready Centre
Main duties of the job
- Maintain stock levels are correct
- Make sure parts orders are processed on a daily basis and VOR orders are actioned in a timely manner.
- Checking data and burn rates of parts on the fleet management system to maintain min and max levels are correct
- Checking stock on a weekly basis across our Kent/Sussex/Surrey sites
- Using email and phone for ordering
- The post holder will be responsible for 3 workshop sites for vehicle parts distribution
- Will cover other workshops when other members of the team are on A/L or sickness
- Will manage and check all stock on sites
- Will Carry out weekly stock checks, at the 4 workshops, that they Look after
- Will visit there sites on a regular basis
- Will need IT skills and be able to use spreadsheets and be familiar with excel Microsoft Word.
Working for our organisation
- NHS Pension Scheme
- A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
- Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
- Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
- Access to occupational health and counselling services.
- Award winning wellbeing hub
- Back up buddy App
- Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To maintain an efficient and orderly parts department across appointed sites. Ensuring that all parts and materials are located in a logical order.
Maintain correct stock levels maximum and minimum. To liaise with parts team leader and update regular stock reports. Practise “just in time” acquisition of parts thus minimizing physical stock holdings. Liaise with suppliers, liaise and communicate with all levels of Fleet staff on a daily basis and give regular updates of parts once ordered.
Travel to all Workshop locations, and update stock levels as required and approved by parts Team Leader or workshop manager and identify recurring problems, thus spending trust monies efficiently
- Maintain correct stock levels & restock parts shelves
- Liaise with suppliers, to obtain parts as required, and ensure parts are correct, and priced accordingly
- Return all parts and materials which are under warranty
- Ensure all stock orders, and other non-stock items, are placed in sufficient time, in there procurement to help achieve maximum vehicle availability
- Make sure all parts and materials supplied are electronically recorded to the appropriate bin, job, or cost centre.
- Check deliveries against orders
- To be responsible for parts administration as required
- Issue of stock to workshop staff, assisting Parts Team Leader.
- Raise parts orders and ordering parts by telephone and scan stock orders.
- Restocking of parts shelves.
- Receive and check parts, booking onto fleet management system
- Travel to other workshops and stores, on a regular basis to check and identify stock levels are correct and identify problems, and inform the Fleet parts team leader and Workshop manager
- Goods out – raising forms / packaging / arranging collection.
- To undertake any other duty or responsibilities, commensurate with the position that may reasonably be required by Fleet Services Manager
- Resources include Computer, Fleet procedure manual, Technical publications
- Job holder may be required, to carry out a job of equal or less value, than this post with relevant training to maintain service deliverance
Person specification
Experience/Skills
Essential criteria
- IT Skills
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Experience of working in a motor Dealership, essentially in a Vehicle Parts Department
Skills
Desirable criteria
- IT Skills
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
- Mrs Tessa Wood
- Job title
- Fleet Parts Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721 538035
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