Stores Team Lead

Spire Dunedin Hospital has an opportunity for an experienced and highly organised Stores Team Leader to join our Team.

In this role, you will oversee the daily operations of the stores, to ensure the smooth running of the department.

Duties and responsibilities:

To work within the theatre procurement team to ensure required kit, consumables and prosthesis are available to enable additional cases to proceed.
To work alongside clinical areas, including wards, theatres, endoscopy and Pre-Assessment to ensure all stock and consumable are available to support assigned cases.
To establish, implement and manage systems to evaluate, monitor and report supplier performance, stock rotation, stock checks and audit.
To attend weekly Theatre planning meetings
Play a crucial part in the development of the hospital supply chain and stock holding strategy to help deliver significant changed and improvements.
Maximise Efficiency
Lead and oversee routine stock checks

Who we're looking for:

Previous experience of working within a similar position in healthcare.
Previous experience in procurement/stock management.
Understand the cause of challenges and work within multi-disciplinary teams.
Excellent communication, organisational & IT skills.
Strong communication, problem solving skills
The ability to effectively prioritise and manage own workload.

Essential:

English Language and Mathematics GCSE or equivalent qualification
Demonstrable ability to process data effectively and accurately.
The ability to work in a methodical, systematic way and an eye for attention to detail
Excellent IT literacy including, Outlook Theatre Diaries, Excel, and Business Objects
Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with different disciplines of healthcare staff, including Consultant users.

Desirable:

Experience of working with Microsoft Office and Spire's Patient Admin System and Business Objects.

Working Hours: Full Time 37.5 hrs per week, 5 days, Monday - Friday, occasional weekend as required

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time

Benefits:

We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
Private medical insurance
Life insurance

Our Values:

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

Driving clinical excellence
Doing the right thing
Caring is our passion
Keeping it simple
Delivering on our promises
Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employee's well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Alison Roberts on

Closing Date: If we have received sufficient applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy without further notice, so please submit your application as soon as possible.