The Inventory Officer has overall responsible for the provision of inventory services (exc pharmacy) across Northumbria Healthcare Trust (NHCT). The posts are across all 4 of our acute sites, North Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital.

The Inventory Officer will ensure the reordering and replenishing of stock taking, receipt of deliveries, stock level monitoring, maintaining minimum stock levels, stock rotation and the tracking of stock across multiple sites. This post includes a large proportion of data entry ensuring accurate records of stock and regular stock takes to verify quantities on the held in the central store.

Please note: We have 1 vacancy which is based at The Northumbria Hospital in Cramlington within Theatres Stores.

You should have experience of stock replenishment and / or working in a stores environment. You should have good interpersonal skills, be customer facing with a helpful, friendly and flexible attitude. You should be PC literate with experience of entering data into computerised systems. You should be able to use your own initiative, and be able to work alone and well as part of a team. The ability to work to deadlines and communicate with staff at all levels is essential.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.