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Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
About
Our staff are our most valuable asset. We are committed to making staff feel appreciated, supported and included in the Trust’s successes. Our mission is to be an outstanding place to work providing the very best care for our patients and excellent career opportunities for our staff. Everything we do is guided by our core values and behaviours, identified by our staff and embedded throughout the organisation.
We have the highest CQC rating of all Acute NHS Trusts in Kent and Medway (Good). The CQC highlighted that managers promoted a positive culture that supported, valued staff and created a sense of common purpose based upon shared values.
The Trust is a great place to work, stay, develop a career and enjoy a healthy work life balance. We have made and are delivering on a wide range of commitments to staff; health and wellbeing; equality; diversity and inclusion; access to education and career development. During 2020 we set up quality councils, driven by our staff to create a culture of shared governance and quality improvement.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We have a strong focus on innovation and improvement. Part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) ‘Healthcare Alliance’ we are introducing new models of care to improve clinical outcomes for patients. Our association with GSTT also gives staff wishing to develop their skills excellent opportunities to work across numerous specialities.
As our local population increases, our services and skills are expanding and adapting to meet demand. We are continuously looking at best practice models to enhance and improve the services we offer.
The Trust provides services at Darent Valley Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, for a local population of over 500,000 people.
If you would like to be part of our innovative and forward thinking team putting patients at the centre of all we do, we invite you to #joinourfamily.
Goods Receipting Officer
Accepting applications until: 06-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 06-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Darent Valley Hospital
- Cyfeiriad
- Darenth Wood Road
- Tref
- Dartford
- Cod post
- DA2 8DA
- Major / Minor Region
- Kent
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £25,329 - £26,958 per annum inclusive of allowances
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 3)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Procurement
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust Procurement Department are presenting an exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Goods Receipting Officers to join our team.
Based in our Goods In/Stores area you will be the first point of contact for delivery drivers and couriers. The role will be to ensure that all goods are received and receipted onto the Trust Finance System correctly and in a timely manner. Supporting Finance with Invoice queries where receipting is required.
Keeping a tidy delivery area and store at all times ensuring a safe working environment.
You will be computer literate with the ability to learn new system processes and will require manual handling of goods and parcels.
This role will report directly to the Supply Chain Supervisor
This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.
Please note, this post may close earlier than the given closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Advert
Based in our Goods In/Stores area you will be the first point of contact for delivery drivers and couriers. The role will be to ensure that all goods are received and receipted onto the Trust Finance System correctly and in a timely manner. Keeping a tidy delivery area and store at all times ensuring a safe working environment.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We are committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer. We strive to employ people who reflect the communities we serve, and aim to create an inclusive culture where everyone can reach their full potential. Whatever your race, ethnicity, belief, generation, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability or experience, you’ll appreciate the opportunities we give you to work in an inclusive atmosphere. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build on the progress we’ve achieved to make our Trust diverse and the best place to work. We celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that help us overcome challenges and embrace new possibilities. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant Pledge and have a commitment to the Armed Forces Community.
We are dedicated to using our Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach as our shared organisation model of change to enhance our services and ensure excellence in patient care.
If you are considering applying for a role, please be aware that as an NHS Employee you may have contact with vulnerable service users. We strongly encourage that all our staff are vaccinated against COVID-19 and are vaccinated annually against Flu, in order to protect the health and safety of our staff and patients. Your commitment will help us to put the safety and care of our patients first, as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Specific Responsibilities
Responsible for receipting all goods and services into the Trust.
Check parcels received against copy of delivery note, ensuring that any discrepancies are noted and reported to supplier.
Prepare parcels to enable Porters to deliver to wards/departments on a daily basis.
Liaise with other staff in the Materials Management Team and other teams within the Procurement Department where necessary.
Move cages and tote boxes as required as well as lifting light to moderate items into designated areas.
Monitor goods in email ensuring any enquiries are responded to quickly and efficiently
Handle all telephone enquiries/booking in requests
Ensure goods are returned to supplier as per the returns process.
Keep delivery area and store tidy at all times ensuring a safe working environment.
Support and cover for the Materials Management Team as and when required
Support and Cover for the pick, pack and distribution of PPE
Understand & work within the Trusts’ and Procurement Team policies & procedures applicable to the post.
Work on own initiative much of time but with management support and guidance available as required.
Unpack NHS Supply Chain cages and tote boxes and sort into Stores and when required wards/departments, when goods are delivered.
Action, correctly authorised, requests from Wards/Departments for additions and/or deletions to Materials Management items and produce updated paperwork, i.e. bar-coding information
Raise stock non stock requisitions as and when required
Establish & maintain optimum stock levels, to ensure shelves are clearly labelled and/or bar-coded for easy identification of products.
Carry out regular audits and to be a key member for the end of year stock take.
Visit wards/departments, as required, and with the use of a hand held data capture unit, take inventory of stock items and record requirements to replenish shelves to agreed optimum stock levels. Ensure that the store/wards/departments have sufficient stocks for weekends and bank holidays.
Download the information, from a data capture unit, to NHS Supply Chain and produce requisitions for the ward/department. From this manually update the materials management folders in respect of quantity, description (including barcode) on a regular basis (at least once per month) to ensure correct information is available at all times for all areas.
Prioritising finance enquiries supporting with faster payments enabling targets to be reached against the Better Payment Practice Guide
Please see attached job description for more information.
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Person specification
Education and Training
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good standard of literacy and numeracy to include GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent purchasing experience
Meini prawf dymunol
- NVQ 3 Purchasing
- NVQ 3 Customer Service
Knowledge and Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good communication, written and verbal
- Good interpersonal skills
- Ability to liaise at all levels in the organisation
- Accurate and methodical approach
- Problem solving
- Work on own initiative
- Work unsupervised
- Work within a team
- Excellent spoken and written English
- Standard IT skills
- Excel spread sheet knowledge
Meini prawf dymunol
- NHS Health Service experience
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Understanding of Purchasing and Supply process
- Warehouse/stock movement experience
Personal Attributes
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Reliable
- Resilient
- Flexible
- Efficient / Effective
- Cheerful
- Self-motivated
- Conscientious
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Elaine Munro
- Teitl y swydd
- Deputy Head of Procurement
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 01322 428214
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