Job Title : Medical Supply Technician
Locations : Louisville, KY 40206
Duration : 1 year to long term
Shift: -7:30am to 4:00pm
Job Description:
- Requires practical knowledge of standard supply inventory management procedures to perform work involving inventory and excess material management.
- Knowledge and ability to interpret policies, procedures, manuals, and regulations pertaining to supply/inventory management.
- Requires knowledge related to stock rotation, hazard alerts and recalls ensuring outdated or otherwise compromised supplies and material are removed from usage area.
- Requires practical knowledge of standard supply inventory management procedures to perform work involving inventory and excess material management. Knowledge and ability to interpret policies, procedures, manuals, and regulations pertaining to supply/inventory management.
- Requires knowledge related to stock rotation, hazard alerts and recalls ensuring outdated or otherwise compromised supplies and material are removed from usage area.
- Requires knowledge of general inventory management practices and procedures. Knowledge of computers and Microsoft Office software programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel, sufficient to enter information and manage supply inventory.
- Guidelines consist of VHA directives, policies, handbooks, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and other documents as well as publications, policies, manufacturer's catalogs and fact sheets on the various items, and shelf-life guidelines. Work requires searching for, interpreting and applying regulatory guidelines to a specific problem, in order to arrive at a justifiable conclusion.
- Work requires adapting and applying general policies and using judgment to make appropriate decisions.
- Issues that cannot be resolved using existing policies, SOPs, and other guidance are referred to the Supervisor, more Senior Supply Technician staff or Inventory Management Specialists for resolution.
- Work requires performance of supply management activities, utilizing computerized systems; including scanning, bar-coding and automated inventory systems, for the delivery and inventory control of medical supplies throughout facilities identified, and validating the data provided by the automated system.
- Data accuracy is a critical component in the processes of inventory management.
- Work requires continual monitoring and making necessary adjustments as identified, based on personal knowledge of the area's current needs and trends, escalating complex or unresolvable issues to the supervisor, more Senior Supply Technician staff or Inventory Management Specialists, as appropriate.
- The work requires an understanding of the variables and difference between units of issue and unit of purchase, packaging discrepancies and the projection of supply needs.
- Work requires standing and walking during the entire workday, and frequent reaching, bending and lifting of supply packages (occasionally weighing as much as fifty (50) pounds).
- Work requires pushing loaded carts of medical supplies (weighing more than one hundred (100) or more pounds). With proper assistance, moves heavier items weighing over forty (40) pounds i. Work is performed throughout the medical center and supported catchment areas, which include wards, storage buildings, and warehouses that range from a clean environment to hot, cold, drafty, and poorly lit.
- The possibility of trips, falls, scrapes, cuts, bruises, or injury are present in the day-to-day work of the position.
- Work requires stocking supplies in the primary inventory area as well as numerous secondary inventory points throughout the hospital work area, including wards, clinics, operating rooms, warehouses, and nursing areas.
- Work requires maintaining a clean environment while performing tasks that can produce dust or other infectious pollutants while transitioning between.
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