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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a person with stock management experience to join our busy stock team within the Access to Communication and Technology(ACT) Service.
The post-holder will support the provision of equipment within three clinical caseloads relating to Electronic Assistive Technology (EAT): people with severe physical disabilities who may need Environmental Control (EC) or computer access and people with communication and language difficulties who may need Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC).
The role will be mostly office based processing and managing equipment but will also involve some deliver and collection of equipment across the West Midlands region and therefore being a car driver is essential.
The post holder will primarily provide stock control functions for Access to Communication and Technology equipment including:
Making demonstration kit available for booked appointments.
Processing new equipment for provision to our patients on our equipment management system.
Decontaminating returned stock.
Collection of stock no longer needed by our patients.
Be Part of Our Team…
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
We are a friendly, enthusiastic, experienced and supportive team who work collaboratively as part of a national network of similar services, all funded by NHS England.
You will be supervised by the Stock Management lead and work alongside the rest of the ACT team.

1. Responsible for monitoring the stock loan equipment on a daily basis, this includes updating the location of any stock on the ACT information systems. This may be as a result of an order, clinical request or technical request following a fault call.
2. Participation in the stock check, this will be at the discretion of the Stock Management Lead.
3. Preparation of stock requested by the clinical and/or technical teams for appointments.
4. Decontamination of returned stock in accordance with Trust policy. Responsible for ensuring the equipment is fit to be returned to stock, identifying when repairs are necessary and raising the appropriate requests for the technical team.
5. Assisting with the enactment of the ACT goods inward procedures. This involves receiving, signing for and accurately identifying received equipment against the orders. Creating unique identifying barcodes and codes, inputting this information into the ACT information systems and storing the equipment appropriately.
6. Liaison with companies to resolve any issues with orders, prices etc. Also to arrange for faulty equipment to be repaired and returned. This will be done with the Stock Management Lead.
7. Collection and delivery of equipment from the local environments of the clients. This will sometimes involve meeting with carers and families of deceased clients and will require the post holder to travel to locations anywhere within the West Midlands region.
8. Arrange for the despatch of equipment via post, courier or personal delivery in line with ACT procedures. This will involve packaging equipment adequately to be safe for transport, contacting the courier companies or liaising with the ACT admin team to arrange for one of the team to deliver.
9. Arranging equipment for ACT training events and transporting it if necessary to location. It may also be required to help set up and dismantle the equipment at the end of the session.
10. Accurately update the ACT information system with stock locations, issue and returned, equipment repairs etc.
11. Assist in the clinical assessment procedure (stock management, setting up and/ or clearing away of demonstration equipment during assessments as needed) and provide support to the technical team during mounting appointments including wheelchair stability testing.
12. Ensure any demonstration equipment is charged and cleaned ready for clinical assessments.
13. Conduct safety testing of stock electrical equipment in compliance with the Portable Appliance Testing Guidelines and ACT policy.
14. Ensure all the stock storage locations are kept tidy and clean.
15. The post holder will participate in the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) (or other agreed) continuing professional development scheme.
16. The post holder will be responsible for working on their own initiative both within and outside of the department and will be required to prioritise, plan and organise their own workload. The post holder will have support from the Stock Management Lead and the Technical Services Lead.
17. The post holder will maintain accurate records of all work performed and other appropriate records as required both within client paper records and the department electronic information systems.
18. Actively participate in all relevant workshop and ACT team meetings as well as any other deemed appropriate