Equipment Library Assistant

at  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

We are recruiting for an Equipment Library Assistant who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be responsible for achieving high efficiency in day to day operation of equipment library. You will be expected to have office skills with a customer service mindset and attention to details to be successful in this position.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

• Deliver medical equipment to various wards departments as requested
• Collect equipment from different wards on a daily basis
• Maintain accurate records of equipment availability, usage and locations using the data base
• Ensure that all equipment are clean and ready for use in the library
• Maintain minimum levels of stock in the equipment library
• Record and monitor transactions of equipment from the library
• Respond to inquiries and requests from healthcare staff regarding equipment availability
• Adhere to trust policies and NHS guidelines
• Report equipment faults, damages or discrepancies to appropriate personnel for further actions
• Work Closely with different teams for efficient and effective service delivery
• Support in Periodic quality audits for stock
• Identify equipment held by the Medical Equipment Library by sight, name, type and by the common or ‘nick name’ given by the User areas,
• Plan and prioritise workload according to the Library job sheets, adjusting priorities over the day depending on availability of equipment and requests made. Inform line manager if unable to prioritise without compromising the MEL service.
• Operate the equipment database E quip including booking equipment in and out, searching the database and processing and printing reports using Excel

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

WE RUN THE FOLLOWING HOSPITALS:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role

Please refer the Job description for details