Supplies Assistant

Full time (37.5hrs Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm)

We make health happen.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

Role Overview

To provide an efficient and high-quality stock management service to all internal customers within the hospital with ‘just in time’ approach You will provide Supplies to the hospital departments, optimise stock levels maintained and always be seeking new ways to reduce on site stock holding requirement.

What you’ll do:

• Work within a team of Supplies Assistants across the hospital
• Support/Cover Theatre Inventory Assistant as and when required
• Sign for all deliveries into the stores department and provide a timely, accurate and efficient delivery service within the hospital
• Receipt, storage, Issue, and distribution of all stock and non-stock items with appropriate use of manual and computerised system 
• Match delivery notes against orders and resolve any stock or delivery discrepancies
• Arrange for the return of goods which have been received faulty or damaged, or have been ordered in error, or, are duplicate delivery
• Process order for main stores, hospital and theatres as required by Stores Supervisor/Inventory Manager
   

What you’ll bring:

• Experience as a Supplies Assistant within Hospital environment
• Experience within supply chain, logistics or inventory.
• Brilliant interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to quickly build rapport
• Great time management and flexibility, you’ll need to switch tasks and support where needed throughout your shift
• Excellent attention to detail
• Solid computing skills and an understanding of the various Microsoft office packages including Excel

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Various other benefits and online discounts
• Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
• Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.