Inventory Team Leader

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, self-motivated, well-organised individual to work as a Site Team Leader within our Inventory Management service.

We provide an Inventory Management Service at each of our 4 main sites within the Trust, and we are advertising one Team Leader at the following site:

Wansbeck General Hospital

This is a fixed-term contract covering a secondment until 31st March 2026.

The post holder will provide leadership and manage the day-to-day operations for the Site Inventory Management team to ensure the provision of an Inventory Management service for a specific hospital site across Wards/Departments and Theatres environment within the hospital.

The Inventory Team has overall responsibility for the provision of inventory services (exc. pharmacy) across Northumbria Healthcare Trust (NHCT). The Inventory Team Leader will ensure reordering and replenishing of stock, taking receipt of deliveries, stock level monitoring, maintaining minimal stock levels, stock rotation, and the tracking of stock across multiple sites by onsite Inventory Coordinators.

Responsibilities will also include sickness absence management, compiling of staff rosters, assisting in staff appraisals, staff training, and any performance/disciplinary issues.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t; this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details/informal visits contact:

Name: Elaine Graham
Job title: Head of Operations
Email address:
Telephone number: 07858 815711

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