Job summary
- Main area
- Logistics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-8634-DIR
- 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
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/01/2025
Employer heading
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, but will be based primarily within the Sheffield Children's Hospital.
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 commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
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.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership skills and/or experience
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
- Darren Carnall
- Job title
- Head of Logistics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2713495
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