Stores Assistant

Job Overview

Band 2 Stores Assistant

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 2 Stores Assistant to join our Acute Medical Unit (AMU) at Frimley Park Hospital. The ideal candidate will have experience in stock ordering, e-procurement, and storage maintenance.

Our AMU is a 42-bed unit that provides care for patients with various medical conditions. We take pride in maintaining the highest professional standards and ensuring efficient storage facility management. In this role, you will support the team by ensuring a well-organized, clean, and fully stocked environment.

Key Responsibilities

Stock Management – Ordering and restocking supplies, including medical equipment and ECG machines.

Storage & Maintenance – Keeping storage areas, medical trolleys, and clinical cupboards clean and organized.

Facility Support – Reporting maintenance issues to the Estates department.

Job Details

Part-time role: 22.5 hours per week (7.5 hours/day)

Working days: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (including bank holidays)

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside doctors, nurses, and support staff in a fast-paced environment, playing a vital role in patient care and service delivery.

If you are a dedicated team player with strong organisational skills, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

To ensure all patients and visitors are treated in a polite and considerate manner and receive prompt attention when required.

• Should be aware of own levels of competence and at no time attempt tasks beyond their ability
• Be aware of their responsibilities regarding health and safety in all aspects of their work areas: i.e., COSHH, manual handling etc.
• Participate in audits related to ward cleanliness and storage.
• To adhere to the Hospital policy in relation to patient confidentiality, and respect patients’ rights and dignity at all times.
• To report any accidents and/or incidents occurring to patients, visitors, and staff, including to oneself, to the nurse in charge at the time of the incident.
• To be aware of the procedure to follow in case of fire.
• To ensure the hospital security policy is adhered to and that suspicious circumstances/ individuals/ packages are reported immediately to the nurse in charge.
• The post holder should not become involved in any financial matters with or on behalf of patients/ relatives or department.
• To understand the importance of utilising resources, ensuring effective communication (verbal and written) in the event of loaning out equipment.
• To ensure the ward stock is maintained.
• To follow the principles of stock control and expiration.
• To ensure the department is safely stocked of medical equipment
• To ensure the medical devices and equipment are maintained in a clean manner
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information regarding tasks and responsibilities of this role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Good general education
  
  

Desirable criteria

• NVQ in cleaning
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• House Keeping/stores organising experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in Health Care environment.
• Experience dealing with general public.
• Previous hospital experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to work with little supervision
• Ability to follow instructions and feedback to senior staff
• Computer skills
• Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy and changing environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of infection control
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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