An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to join a rapidly changing and expanding Scan4Safety team at our forward thinking NHS Trust. This is a progressive role within a dynamic Scan4Safety team. Successful candidates will be appointed at Band 3 with a clear pathway to Band 4 upon meeting defined performance and development criteria.
We are a leading integrated health, teaching, research and innovation campus in the thriving city region of Manchester. We offer a unique range of services to the North West, treating and managing the simplest to the most complex conditions and diseases. Indeed, we treat more than a million patients every year and we are home to hundreds of world-class staff, each committed to being the very best at what we do.
This is a multi site service with locations at Trafford, Oxford Road, Wythenshawe & North Manchester.
We are looking for an individual who is keen to learn about Scan 4 Safety and Procurement in the healthcare sector; someone who is able to methodically deal with information and data and translate that into fantastic customer service. You will need to be strong willed, numerate and a great communicator with a close eye for detail.
Our Mission
"To implement Standardisation & Rationalisation, using leading technologies to provide best practice and cost efficiencies to our NHS Trust. Going beyond the boundaries of materials management to deliver a service that adapts and excels in the ever changing healthcare environment.
To implement and maintain service standards across key departments and wards, undertaking the day to day ordering activity on behalf of the customer, in line with agreed protocols.
To be responsible for ensuring that customer’s requirements are always met in the most cost effective way possible, ensuring continuity of supplies.
Carrying out quarterly reviews with appropriate ward/departmental leads, using system information to illustrate spending patterns, identify and agree all products and stock levels with the customer, monitor usage and activity patterns and place timely and accurate orders to maintain agreed levels.
Regular customer contact to ensure stock levels and the range of products held are regularly reviewed, reflect activity and are updated in agreement with the customer.
Assist in value for money studies to contribute to savings set targets and regularly reports spend/saving activity.
Receive, check and put away all deliveries. Ensuring that items are rotated, stored in the correct location and the store areas are left tidy.
Process and monitor discrepancies ensuring that returns and credits are processed appropriately.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Redmond Job title: S4S Senior Development Manager WTWA Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0161 701 0182
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