Theatre Supplies Specialist

Job Description

• Theatre Supplies Assistant
• Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London
• Permanent ,
• Full Time, Monday-Friday | 37.5 hours per week
• We Make Health Happen

At Bupa Cromwell Hospital, our purpose is simple: helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

As a Theatre Supplies Assistant, you'll play a vital role behind the scenes, ensuring our clinical teams have the stock, supplies and equipment they need to deliver exceptional patient care.

Working within our Supply Chain team, you'll help maintain efficient stock management processes across our Theatre and Angio departments, ensuring products are received, stored and distributed accurately and efficiently.

Your contribution will directly support the smooth running of hospital services and positive patient outcomes.

How You’ll Help Us Make Health Happen

As a Theatre Supplies Assistant, you'll be responsible for supporting the effective management of theatre inventory and stock supplies across the hospital.

Your responsibilities will include

• Receiving and checking all incoming deliveries against purchase orders and delivery documentation.
• Promptly receipting goods within inventory management systems to maintain accurate stock levels.
• Identifying, investigating and escalating delivery discrepancies to suppliers and the Inventory Team.
• Supporting the resolution of invoice and delivery matching exceptions, helping identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Safely receiving, processing and distributing stock and non-stock items across Theatre and Angio departments.
• Processing departmental stock orders and ensuring timely replenishment of supplies.
• Conducting regular stock checks, cycle counts and inventory audits.
• Maintaining accurate stock locations and ensuring products are correctly stored and identifiable.
• Following stock rotation procedures (FIFO) to minimise waste and reduce expiry risks.
• Managing returns for damaged, faulty or incorrectly supplied items.
• Identifying slow-moving or obsolete stock and reporting findings to the Inventory Manager.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and suppliers to ensure efficient stock management operations.
• Key Skills / Qualifications

Essential

• Previous experience working within a stock control, stores, warehouse, logistics or supply chain environment.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Good communication skills and confidence liaising with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Basic IT skills and experience using computerised systems.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced healthcare environment whilst maintaining high standards.

Desirable

• Experience using inventory or stock management systems.
• Previous experience within a hospital, healthcare or clinical environment.
• Understanding of stock control principles, including stock rotation and inventory management processes.
• Knowledge of purchase orders, goods receipting and invoice matching procedures.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people.

Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health, from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing.

• Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• Generous healthcare discounts for you and your family.
• Access to a range of Bupa wellbeing and social channels and events.
• Why Bupa

We're a health insurer and provider.

With no shareholders, our customers are our focus.

Our people are all driven by the same purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

We encourage all our people to \"Be you at Bupa\".

We champion diversity and understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.

That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.

This means we aim to offer an interview to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process.

• Time Type: Full time
• Job Area: Clinical Services
• Locations: Cromwell Hospital London
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