Stock Controller

From £27,332 DOE

**Job title**: Stock Controller (known in the organisation as a Laboratory Support Officer)**Salary from** £27,332 - DOE**Location**: Royal Free Hospital, NW3 2QG**_About us:_**

**Sonic Healthcare** is an internationally renowned healthcare provider with a demonstrable track record of medical services across the world. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Sonic is an ASX Top 50 company that has grown to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers, specialising in pathology, radiology and primary care medical centres. We have operations in Australia, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand.**Sonic Healthcare UK** encompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.- Our purpose is to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality, whilst also delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.**About the role**:

- An opportunity has arisen for a someone to undertake Stock Control for the laboratories operated by Sonic Healthcare UK at the Royal Free Hospital. Wiithin the organisation you will have the job title of: Laboratory Support Officer. This role has come about due to Sonic Healthcare UK having promoted the previous post holder to a Team Leader at another site. The role will be based in the hospital - postcode NW3 2QG- We are recruiting for an individual to join a small team to undertake Stock Control of all equipment used at the Whittington. Stock will be held at the Royal Free Hospital, in our Warehouse and with the Manufacturers.- The Stock Controller/Laboratory Support Officer works with the Team Leader and other Support Officers helping ensure that the facilities required by the laboratories work efficiently and effectively. By reducing facility downtime, you will contribute to the robustness of the service we offer and ultimately improve patient pathways.- Your duties will include:
**Responsive Maintenance -** for all equipment used in the laboratories: logging equipment faults with the manufacturers, conducting basic repairs to the equipment with assistance from the equipment manufacturers telephone support teams; logging confirmation on the system for an engineer call-out for faulty equipment and keeping the key stakeholders updated on the progress of the repair; stock control of spare parts and consumables; escalating support issues where required.**Cyclical Equipment Maintenance** - liaise with the manufacturers for the regular maintenance visits and any necessary changes to the cyclical repair program; advise in advance and update the different departments and teams when equipment downtimes are expected; communicate with the Sample Collection Teams, the contingency plans when there is equipment downtime.**Equipment Calibration** - responsible for calibrating equipment; logging any issues on the reporting system; obtaining remote support from the manufacturer; co0ordination of onsite engineers; updating the calibration log.**Stock Control and Procurement** - monitoring and managing stock levels held locally and at the Sonic Healthcare Warehouses; undertaking a regular stock control; posting orders in to the Ledger system; assessing optimum stock levels and making necessary adjustments.**Essential requirements**:

- Experience of working with Quality Management Systems or Stock Control Systems
- Good organisational skills
- Experience of MS Office

**Desirable experience**
- Experience of working with Quality Management Systems within a laboratory environment.
- Working with Quality Management Systems within a laboratory environment.
- At HSL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:
- **Training and development opportunities supporting professional development**
- **Annual performance related salary review**
**- No banding restrictions**:As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling- **Discounted gym membership** - we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms
- **Cash healthcare plan** - cash back on a variety of healthcare