Location
London

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£31,066 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS trusts, providing a wide range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust is home to leading facilities including the largest dental school in Europe, a £160 million Cancer Centre, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and one of the largest critical care units in the UK. The Trust is committed to clinical excellence, high quality teaching, research, and delivering the best possible patient experience.

As a Receipt & Distribution Operative, you will work as part of a team delivering a first-class Supply Chain service across the Trust. Your responsibilities will include receiving stock, unpacking and replenishing stores or storerooms in wards and clinical departments, ensuring continuous stock rotation, and safely handling heavy supply items. You will be responsible for the secure delivery of supplies, checking deliveries against requisitions or orders, investigating discrepancies, and arranging returns or credits where necessary.

You will also transport supplies securely across the Trust, maintain secure storage in line with safe storage requirements, and identify items requiring specialist storage such as refrigeration. You will work closely with wards and departments to agree delivery times, particularly for large or heavy items, and ensure compliance with health and safety and manual handling rules. The role involves following Trust policies and procedures and contributing to the development of service policies relevant to your duties.

The Trust offers an inclusive and ambitious working environment with a healthy work-life balance, generous annual leave, individual development opportunities, mentorship for career progression, a competitive salary, and access to the NHS Pension Scheme.

Experience
- Receiving deliveries and checking goods against delivery notes
- Sorting, storing, and distributing stock correctly
- Using handheld scanners, barcode systems, and Datascope system
- Previous experience in stores, warehouse, logistics, or distribution environment is desirable
- Experience within the NHS or healthcare sector is desirable
- Experience handling medical supplies or controlled items is desirable

About you
- Good attention to detail and accuracy when handling stock and records
- Ability to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
- Ability to undertake manual handling activities safely
- Ability to receive, check, and distribute goods accurately
- Pump truck or pallet truck operation skills are desirable
- Experience handling sensitive, specialist, or medical supplies is desirable

Qualifications & Knowledge
- Knowledge of goods receiving and distribution procedures
- Understanding of quality standards and reporting discrepancies, damages, or shortages
- Knowledge of customer service principles
- Understanding of barcode scanning and electronic stock tracking systems is desirable
- Knowledge of warehouse or logistics operations is desirable
- Awareness of COSHH is desirable