Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Materials Management - Corporate
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-26-002
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £24,169 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/08/2025
Employer heading
Logistics Officer
Band 2
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
As a Logistics Officer you will be responsible in supporting the department for the receipt of deliveries into the Central Stores area for all locations within the Freeman Hospital.
This will include the unloading of delivery vehicles, opening and checking all deliveries, receipting into the oracle system and delivering to the end users across the trust.
The role also involves liaising with wards and departments via email and telephone and has a great feeling of satisfaction helping with any queries others may have encountered with their deliveries.
This will require focus and concentration as you will be working in a busy and heavily workload environment.
The role is multi-tasking and you should feel a sense of satisfaction when you undertake both the IT and manual duties to fulfill the requirements of the departments goals which contributes to the servicing of all Trust service members.
- Interview Date Monday 04 August 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The position will consist of various skills and duties and will include the following.
Driving a van to Service both the Day Treatment Centre and the Royal Victoria Infirmary stores.
Off-loading numerous delivery vehicles during the day.
Decanting and delivering goods to all wards and departments.
Planning and separating deliveries into various distribution routes on a daily basis.
Checking, verifying and then receipting orders into the oracle system.
Answering telephones and helping with query situations which may arise.
Data input and the recording of daily analytical data and statistics.
Generating IT based customer returns documentation.
Scanning and filing supplier delivery documentation, converting these from paper to digital format.
Working as part of a team and prioritizing the daily workload whilst using your own initiative.
Keeping the stores a safe and tidy environment to work in for yourself and your colleagues.
This role consists of manual and office based activities so it will be at times both physically and mentally demanding. Good keyboard, numerical and manual lifting skills are required for this position as well as a valid driving licence.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a well-managed efficient, secure, safe, accurate and timely service for the receipt, storage and distribution of goods at Freeman Hospital or Royal Victoria Infirmary.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Valid UK Driving Licence
Desirable criteria
- European computer driving licence qualification or equivalent qualification / experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- A good level of basic education
- Experience of working within a team
- Prepared to undertake necessary training (continuous development) commensurate with the requirements of the job
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a store’s environment
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Good keyboard skills
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Good numeric and literacy skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Terence Moore
- Job title
- Stores & Distribution Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912137129
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