Inventory Management Support Assistant

Job Summary

To support colleagues within the Supplies Department, delivering and ensuring that departments within the Trust receive their goods in a timely manner, adhering to trust values.
Maintaining a clean and safe work environment highlighting any known health and safety issues to the relevant department or management.

• Operate delivery systems with a PDA (Personal digital assistant) to ensure point of delivery is captured.
• Ensure delivery of items is complete and on a timely basis.
• Support colleagues to investigate and resolve discrepancies of goods received against point of delivery, communicating with colleagues in Supplies and clinical departments throughout the trust.
• Support colleagues within the team to fulfil the departments duties.
• Assist areas within the stores department when required.
• Transport goods to their destination and ensure empty roll cages are returned to the Supplies Department; rubbish emptied into appropriate recycling bins and broken down ready for collection by NHS Supply Chain. When necessary, assist in offloading deliveries and obtain signatures from customers when required.
• Ensure the Supplies Department is kept tidy and maintained to agreed standards.
• Support the team in dealing with delivery issues, developing and initiating resolutions to problems.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with end‑users, colleagues within Procurement and Supplies.
• Co‑ordinate operational activity with colleagues and management to ensure continuity of service in preparation for authorised leave within the team, and during unexpected leave ensure appropriate cover to keep service uninterrupted.

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:
Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Courage.

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Date posted: 11 February 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 2

Salary: £24,465 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: -A COR

Job locations: Northampton General Hospital, Cliftonville, Northampton, NN1 5BD

• Transport goods to their destination and ensure empty roll cages are returned to the Supplies Department; rubbish emptied into appropriate recycling bins and broken down ready for collection by NHS Supply Chain. When necessary, assist in offloading deliveries and obtain signatures from customers when required.
• Ensure the Supplies Department is kept tidy and maintained to agreed standards.
• Support the team in dealing with delivery issues, developing and initiating resolutions to problems.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with end‑users, colleagues within Procurement and Supplies.
• Co‑ordinate operational activity with colleagues and management to ensure continuity of service in preparation for authorised leave within the team, and during unexpected leave ensure appropriate cover to keep service uninterrupted.