Materials Management Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves providing an efficient, cost-effective, timely, and courteous Materials Management service to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children's NHS Trust. The post holder will manage day-to-day Materials Management for dedicated areas, operating within broad procedural guidelines to ensure timely and effectively managed stock systems at ward and departmental levels. This requires a high degree of independent judgment and initiative, including regular stock reviews, supply chain evaluations, product rationalisation, and cost-effective initiatives.
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or equivalent or be willing to working towards
- Prepared to undertake training in Procurement/Logistics
- Good keyboard Skills
- Computer literate using Microsoft applications
- Experience of using IT systems.
- Experience within Customer Services environment or similar environment
- Full UK Driving Licence
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of recognised Electronic Materials Management systems
- NVQ 3 or equivalent or be willing to working towards
- Prepared to undertake training in Procurement/Logistics
- Good keyboard Skills
- Computer literate using Microsoft applications
- Experience of using IT systems.
- Experience within Customer Services environment or similar environment
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Working knowledge of recognised Electronic Materials Management systems
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Materials Management Officer
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
A vacancy has arisen for a Materials Management Officer, based within the Procurement Department. The post-holders will be employed and managed by Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be required to provide an efficient, cost effective, timely and courteous Materials Management service to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children's NHS Trust. They will also manage the day to day Materials Management Service for dedicated allocated areas within the Trusts. The posts cover a range of tasks, which require the exercise of initiative.
Main duties of the job
Operating within broad procedural guidelines and working to timetables the objective for this post holder is to ensure timely and effectively managed stock systems at Ward and Departmental level. A high degree of independent judgement is required as much of the working day is spent at ward level working on own initiative.
The post holder will undertake regular stock reviews with the appointed ward/ departmental lead, Supply Chain evaluations, using system based reports, product rationalisation and cost effective initiatives, in line with Procurement Departments procedures and protocol working at all times, and demonstr
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