Job Description

Position Reports To:

Director of Strategy and Operational Excellence

Overview of Elanic Hospital:

Elanic Hospital opens mid-September 2024, offering a new private hospital service for Glasgow City Centre and Central Scotland. Situated on Bath Street, the hospital is the expansion of the successful Elanic Clinic which has been undertaking day-surgery since 2013.

The hospital will add two new operating theatres to Elanic's facilities, one of which will be an Ultra-Clean laminar flow theatre, capable of joint surgery, and will mean a total of three operating theatres within the Elanic facilities. In addition to the operating theatre capacity, the hospital will add; five inpatient bedrooms, one of which will offer high dependency functionality; a daycase surgery recovery suite; and consulting space.

Elanic Hospital will build on the high quality and high patient satisfaction reputation of Elanic Clinic who achieved a 'Good' rating from Healthcare Improvement Scotland in June 2024 and has exceptionally low infection rates.

The hospital will be offering treatments/procedures in multiple specialties including; Orthopaedic, General, Bariatrics, Plastics/Cosmetics, ENT, Gynaecology, and more.

Overview of Position:

The Supplies and Materials Manager role is primary to lead the Hospital Materials function. The Materials Team is focused on ensuring that the Hospital and corresponding departments have all the necessary stock available and to hand in order to provide all scheduled patient treatment and procedures and ensure the general running of the hospital. This predominantly includes clinical consumables or prosthesis stock and may also include clinical equipment and general office supplies.

The Supplies and Materials Manager will be expected to liaise with suppliers to ensure the hospital procures materials in a cost effective manner and that stock management is undertaken with a view to maintaining an optimal working capital position by appropriately minimising stock value held.

The role holder will be required to cover a flexible shift pattern including occasional weekends.

Personal Attributes & Skills

Essential:

Experience of leading a team Strong stock management experience Able to prioritise workload whilst providing a professional and positive impression at all times Excellent communication skills both written and verbal PC literate with intermediate skills on all Microsoft Office packages A strong focus on customer care and engagement Good organisational and administrative skills Good listening skills and the ability to learn and adapt quickly

Desirable:

Healthcare stock management experience Customer care training

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Role Specific:

Participate as part of the Hospital Management Team Day-to-day management of the Materials Team - inclusive of HR related matters, rotas, 121s, annual appraisals, resource management, guidance/direction on task orientation, etc Ensuring all patients receive high quality customer service at Elanic Ensuring the team tasks are performed in line with standard procedures Ensuring team/hospital key performance metrics are achieved Responsible for ensuring team members are appropriately trained in the duties of the team Undertake the duties of the team alongside the team when there are occasions this is required Manage the department's operational excellence framework in line with the hospital operational excellence framework - inclusive of; engaging staff in improvement, recording/monitoring metrics, undertaking audits, leading improvement initiatives, etc
Team specific:

To contribute to the effective management of hospital stock, to facilitate an efficient supply of consumables to all departments Ensure stock availability by liaising with suppliers for orders Ensuring the correct order processing and replenishing of pre-approved stock Carry out departmental top ups to departments and wards on an agreed frequency as and when required Provide a Theatre Pick to Case Service Receipt of supplies into the Hospital and ensuring appropriate storage of supplies

Key Metrics Related to the Role

Patient satisfaction Consultant satisfaction Staff satisfaction and engagement Stock availability compliance Theatre pick per case accuracy Working capital ratios (in relation to stock value) Processes managed in line with targets and SLAs Process adherence compliance Productivity
(The above is neither inclusive nor exhaustive and other duties / objectives / goals may be reviewed and changed from time to time as business needs dictate and in agreement with job holder.)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 40,000.00-50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount Private medical insurance
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 26/07/2024