Unit Logistics Associate I

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Unit Logistics Associate I performs supply-related functions supporting patient care on the St. Raphael Campus. The role manages unit supply areas and deliveries, including inventorying supplies with handheld PC/PAR EX devices, putting away orders, maintaining orderly storage areas, processing emergency orders, participating in supply PAR reviews, and receiving deliveries. The associate acts as a medical-supply resource for assigned units and collaborates with patient service managers, nursing staff, Materials representatives, supply vendors, Customer Service Coordinators, and other Materials staff to provide quality service and meet patient-care needs. The position also delivers and retrieves equipment and other items, maintains equipment and storage locations, transports specimens, handles linen and warehouse goods, supports supply replenishment and inventory activities, and uses department information systems to manage dispatched work and other departmental functions. Duties may include filling isolation stations and processing contaminated Central Supply items.

Requirements

High school degree or equivalent.
One to two years of Materials/Supply handling order experience.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with Patient Services Managers and Material Management Staff.
Demonstrated competency operating handheld and desktop computer systems for supply ordering, replenishment, and project work, such as Lawson.
Demonstrated competency in supply-management concepts, such as PAR levels.
Ability to lift cases of supplies weighing up to 50 lbs.
Ability to push heavy rack tracks loaded with supplies.
Ability to work in confined supply-room spaces and to OSHA standards.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a patient-care unit or hospital setting preferred.

Responsibilities

Delivers and retrieves equipment, supplies, flowers, some food items, specimens, medical gases, and other items to patient-care areas according to dispatcher or dispatch-system instructions.
Completes dispatched work requests in response to Service Response Center requests and shift-leader direction.
Maintains designated equipment and supply storage areas and moves equipment to and from those locations.
Identifies and tags unserviceable equipment and works with maintenance to ensure repairs.
Transports specimens from patient divisions to clinical laboratories and operates the tube system for movement of specimens or information.
Uses department information systems, including Service Response Center systems, to retrieve, monitor, and perform departmental work.
Performs other departmental duties as requested, including filling isolation stations on patient-care units when necessary.
Provides considerate, helpful, and courteous customer service in interactions with others.
Receives linen from the linen plant, distributes it throughout campus, and transfers dirty linen to the transporting trailer for bulk linen deliveries.
Operates electric tow tractors and scooters safely.
Assists with processing contaminated Central Supply items to ensure proper decontamination.
Accepts supplies, packages, and equipment for distribution to customer departments.
Performs purchasing-receiver duties.
Receives goods delivered to the hospital warehouse from the receiving platform.
Issues warehouse supplies to using departments.
Replenishes shelves in cart-picking aisles.
Participates in annual fiscal-year inventory and assists with inventory cycle counts.
Inventories unit supply areas, puts away supply orders, maintains orderly supply areas, processes emergency supply orders, participates in reviewing and changing unit supply PARs, and performs receiving functions for unit supply deliveries.
Collaborates with patient service managers, nursing, Materials representatives, vendors, Customer Service Coordinators, and other Materials staff to support supply-related patient-care needs.