Inventory Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and self-motivated Inventory Officer to join the Inventory management team at The Northumbria Hospital. The post holder will provide an Inventory management service for Theatres, ensuring adequate stock levels of medical and non-medical products are maintained. This involves counting, ordering, checking, and putting away goods, as well as reviewing stock usage reports. The role also requires providing cover to hospital stores, including receiving and checking goods.
Key responsibilities
- Carry out full range of usual stores duties which includes receipt unloading, checking quantity and quality of goods delivered and the completion of necessary documentation.
- Ensure that adequate medical and non-medical supplies stock levels are maintained across NHCT by conducting top-up re-ordering using a bar code reader.
- Liaise with clinical staff to ensure that adequate agreed stock levels are always maintained.
- Input data using appropriate computerised stock control systems and use a hand-held scanner.
- Deal confidently and helpfully with all levels of staffing within a hospital environment and with outside suppliers.
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of professional purchasing principles acquired through vocational level 3 qualification or Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) Foundation, or equivalent experience.
- A good level of awareness and understanding of Supplies terminology e.g. Transfer Point, delivery schedules. The post holder will be required to carry out input of data using appropriate computerised stock control systems & use a hand-held scanner
- Carry out full range of usual stores duties which includes receipt unloading, checking quantity and quality of goods delivered and the completion of necessary documentation.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of contract law acquired through short courses and experience or equivalent experience
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.
Posted 5d ago · Closes in 9d
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Inventory Officer
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, conscientious, self-motivated individual to work in our Inventory management team. There is one role within the Inventory Team and is based at The Northumbria Hospital. The post holder will provide an Inventory management service for the Theatres, on which full training will be given.Reporting to the Inventory Team Leader, you will ensure that adequate stock levels of medical and non-medical products are maintained on wards & departments or in the theatre stores. This will be achieved by counting and ordering a defined range of products using a bar code reader, and also checking and putting away the received goods. You will review stock usage reports and liaise with Theatre Managers to keep adequate agreed stock levels.You will also be expected to provide cover to the hospital stores as and when required. These duties will include receiving goods from suppliers, checking the quantity and quality of the goods, receipt of orders into the Trust Ordering System and the completion of any necessary documentation.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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