Spire Healthcare
Bank Stores Assistant
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Bank Stores Assistant | Private hospital | Bank/Zero hours contract | Flexible working hours | Southampton
Spire Southampton Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Stores Assistant to join our Stores team on a bank/ad-hoc basis.
As Stores Assistant, you will be supporting the smooth running of the hospital by ensuring departments receive the stock, consumables, and supplies they need in a timely, accurate, and efficient way. You will help maintain effective stock control, process deliveries, support ordering activity, and ensure stock is stored safely and appropriately across the hospital.
Shifts: 7am-3pm or 8am-4pm, according to rota as required
Duties and responsibilities
As Stores Assistant, you will:
- Receive, check, and process deliveries from suppliers and the National Distribution Centre.
- Distribute stock and non-stock items to hospital departments.
- Support daily stock control, top-up counts, and stock replenishment.
- Ensure all goods are matched accurately to purchase orders and recorded correctly.
- Help maintain safe, organised, and clearly labelled stores areas.
- Support stock rotation to minimise waste and ensure out-of-date stock is not used.
- Liaise with internal teams, suppliers, and colleagues to resolve stock queries in a timely manner.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for someone organised, accurate, and confident working in a busy environment. Previous experience in a stores, supplies, or stock control role is essential, and experience within healthcare would be an advantage.
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You will also need:
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- A methodical approach with strong attention to detail.
- Good literacy and numeracy skills.
- Confidence using IT systems, including Microsoft Office.
- The ability to work independently, prioritise workload, and meet deadlines.
- An awareness of Health & Safety and COSHH would be beneficial.
Working with Spire
At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We put patients at the heart of everything we do, work together to succeed, drive excellence, and deliver on our promises. This role is a great opportunity to be part of a supportive hospital team where your work directly contributes to excellent patient care.
Benefits
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support, and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
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Our Values
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together
Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth, and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
We commit to our employee’s well-being through work-life balance, on-going development, support, and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 38 hospitals and 50 clinics across England, Wales, and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case, and outpatient care.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
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