Job Description

:JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for accurate procuring, ordering, receiving and movement of all stock and non-stock hospital supplies. Generates proper documentation and maintains the automated OR inventory system database. Serves as a resource to all staff for any supply and/or equipment issues in designated department.EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: High School diploma or equivalent with one year experience in purchasing, shipping, or receiving materials. Associate's degree preferred.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Performs accurate PeopleSoft on-line purchase requests while striving to adhere to the departmental budget. Works to control operating room costs and maintain optimum inventory levels. 2. Ensures service specific, OR par-stock and generic supplies are properly maintained in designated locations for distribution throughout all sites in the Operating Room. 3. Rotates all inventory, eliminates expired and unused supplies. Utilizes inventory skills to improve inventory turns. Conducts monthly inventory cycle counts. Works daily to keep the inventory database up to date and accurate for all current and newly added supplies. 4. Works with vendors/distributors to return low usage, obsolete and/or overstocked supplies for exchange or credit. Helps to resolve manufacturer recalls as quickly as possible to promote patient safety. Obtains appropriate FDA approvals and any supplemental Medicare charge codes when necessary. 5. Investigates and resolves any problems associated with orders: backorders, errors, miscommunication, lost shipments, price discrepancies and invoice discrepancies. 6. Maintains clean and orderly work areas. Helps to organize and maintain all par stock locations within Surgical Services. Follows Joint Commission standards and Fire Marshall Requirements. 7. Works as a team with co-workers to promote a cooperative work environment. Demonstrates and supports Lifewings and ICARE principles. Serves as a teacher and mentor to others. 8. Schedules meetings with vendors and other hospital department managers, as needed. Ensures accurate and complete accounting of all incoming freight. 9. Ensures prompt processing of items in the following order: perishable items, express packages, and ground deliveries. 10. Additional job duties may require transport of other material throughout the facility including, but not limited to mail and linen.About Us:Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.About the Team:Mission, Vision and Culture CommitmentsMissionTo improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.VisionTo be the first and best choice for care.Culture CommitmentsWe create a space where all BelongWe Work as One to make great things happenWe earn Trust in all we doWe Innovate to better the now and create the futureWe drive for Excellence - always

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