Associate Clinical Supply Specialist (6:45am - 7:15pm, Rotating Schedule/Weekends)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking an Associate Clinical Supply Specialist to join their Emergency Services team. This role involves dispensing medical/surgical supplies and patient care equipment, ensuring appropriate inventory levels are maintained, and assembling carts for distribution. The position requires a focus on customer service, inventory management, and equipment inspections. VUMC is committed to an environment where everyone can thrive and where uniqueness is celebrated, fostering a sense of community and purpose.

Requirements

Customer Service (Novice): A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
Inventory Management (Novice): Monitors material movement into and out of stock, reconciles inventory balances, and maintains adequate inventory levels.
Equipment Inspections (Novice): Reviews and Inspections is a systematic process of checking to see whether a piece of equipment is meeting specified requirements.
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year of experience
High School Diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Performs clearly defines tasks and methods described in detail to achieve standardized solutions that impact own performance with regular guidance.
Follows a well established process to solve routine problems where solutions are clearly prescribed.
Has basic job knowledge of systems and procedures that are common to own job.
Individually contributes to the team.
Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Shows eagerness to learn new knowledge, technologies, tools or systems and displays willingness to go above and beyond.
Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Responsibilities

Dispenses medical/surgical supplies and patient care equipment with regular guidance.
Ensures appropriate supplies are ordered, received, and inventory levels are maintained.
Assembles carts for distribution.
Ensures supplies are in a clean and safe working condition and environment.
Maintains adequate supply in storage locations.
Cleans, prepares, and tests specialty beds or equipment for safety.
May capture patient charges for supplies.