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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity within the Theatre Logistics Team at Salford.

The role of the Logistics Supervisor is to supervise all relevant Logistics Officers/Assistants and support the delivery of Logistics activities across the Trust site; providing an efficient safe and secure goods supply service whilst ensuring agreed service levels are maintained.

You will also deputise for the Deputy Logistics Manager as and when required.

You will be a member of the Logistics Team and will be required to adopt a flexible attitude and encouraged/expected to develop skills to enable them to fulfil the responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

• Day to day Supervision of logistics staff, planning daily work schedules.
• To provide operational cover when required to Logistics Officers on the Materials Management and Theatre Logistic Teams.
• To provide operational cover when required to the Deputy Logistics Manager.
• Work with departmental clinicians / support staff to ensure the correct equipment, medical consumables and services are available for patient care
• Action Medical Device Alerts (MDA) to ensure compliance with national instructions relating to equipment / products safety
• Whilst this role is based in the Salford care organisation, there is an expectation that individual knowledge, expertise, and lessons learned will be shared across the procurement department
• To have a working understanding of the Group Governance Framework Manual to ensure all requisitions and orders comply with the organisations policies. This includes NHSSC contracts, SBS contracts, other frameworks, and direct representation through the process
• Provide guidance and support to junior members of the team to enable them to achieve individual and team goals and objectives
• To present the procurement function as a progressive, proactive, responsive, and innovative department
• Ensure that an effective and efficient procurement service is provided to all end-users
• To support the department with the implementation of GS1 standards working within both the strategy board as well as operational sub-group to develop systems and processes which support the delivery of GS1 standards

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.