Job overview

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.  Goods are to be handled in a safe and efficient method to preserve quality and support safe collection and delivery.

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.   

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.  

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

  
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.  

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.  When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.  

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.