Stores Assistant

Bank Stores Assistant | Stores | Private Hospital | Cambridge | Adhoc Shift Patterns |

Join the team at Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital as a Bank Stores Assistant and play a vital role in ensuring our hospital departments have the equipment and supplies they need to deliver outstanding patient care.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with stores, logistics or supply chain experience who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in providing an efficient and reliable service. As a bank colleague, you'll benefit from flexible shifts to fit around your lifestyle while gaining experience within one of the UK's leading independent healthcare providers.

The Role

As a Stores Assistant, you'll be responsible for coordinating and controlling the supply of stock and non-stock items throughout the hospital, ensuring departments receive everything they need accurately and on time.

You'll become an integral part of a busy support services team, helping us maintain excellent standards and achieve key performance targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure stock levels are maintained and regularly reviewed to support operational requirements
• Order stock and non-stock items through approved suppliers and the National Distribution Centre (NDC)
• Receive and process deliveries accurately using SAP and associated documentation
• Maintain clear audit trails and resolve any discrepancies relating to deliveries and purchase orders
• Distribute stock and supplies efficiently across hospital departments
• Arrange returns, credits and supplier queries where required
• Support continuous improvement of stores processes and service delivery
• Contribute to a safe, organised and efficient working environment

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is organised, reliable and enjoys working both independently and as part of a team.

You will ideally have:

• Previous experience within a stores, supplies, warehouse or logistics environment
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Confidence using IT systems and Microsoft Office applications
• The ability to work under pressure and prioritise workloads effectively
• A proactive approach with the ability to use your own initiative
• A professional appearance and customer-focused attitude appropriate for a healthcare setting

Bank Benefits:

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Smartspending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
• Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You’
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team

Our Values:

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion.
• Keeping it simple
• Delivering on our promises
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications