Logistics Operative

The role of the Logistics Operative is to ensure safe and effective movements of goods to support the needs of the Trust.

Products will need to be delivered and collected in a timely fashion in accordance with a daily schedule. Good are to be handled in a safe and efficient method to preserve quality and support safe collection and delivery.

Products will be delivered to the Trust’s hospital sites from a number of suppliers and delivery agents, including NHS Supply Chain. The main duties of the Logistics Operative will include:

Ensuring all products are checked and signed for.

Loading, moving and collecting cages (both full and empty) on a daily basis.

Checking the quality of items and rejecting items that are substandard.

Collection and removal of waste streams from designated waste points across the sites

To complete a full Trust-led training programme to ensure all products and waste can be moved, handled, stored and disposed of safely and effectively.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff

Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do

Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

The Logistics Operative post is a role that will ensure the safe and efficient movement of various materials and waste throughout the Trust. The Logistics Team is being established to ensure that no team works in isolation, and the Logistics Operative, therefore, may be required to move goods/products, linen, waste, post, sterile equipment and other non-patient-facing materials on a daily basis, working to a defined schedule.