Unit Logistics Associate I

Yale New Haven Health•New Haven, CT

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Unit Logistics Associate performs supply-related functions that support patient care on the St. Raphael Campus. The role includes inventorying unit supply areas with handheld PC/PAR EX devices, putting away supply orders, maintaining orderly supply areas, processing emergency supply orders, participating in unit supply PAR reviews, receiving deliveries, and advocating for the medical supply needs of assigned units. The associate works with patient service managers, nursing staff, Materials representatives, supply vendors, Customer Service Coordinators, and other Materials staff to provide customer service and meet patient care needs. The role also delivers and retrieves equipment, supplies, specimens, linen, and other items; maintains designated storage areas; helps identify equipment needing repair; transports specimens to clinical laboratories; operates department dispatch and information systems; receives and distributes warehouse goods; and assists with inventory, replenishment, and contaminated Central Supply processing. The position requires lifting supply cases up to 50 pounds, pushing loaded rack tracks, working in confined supply-room spaces, and following OSHA standards.

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 up to 50 pounds.
Ability to push heavy rack tracks loaded with supplies.
Ability to work in confined supply-room spaces and follow 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 systems.
Completes dispatched work requests in response to Service Response Center requests and shift leader direction.
Maintains designated equipment and supply storage areas, including moving equipment to and from those areas.
Identifies and tags unserviceable equipment and works with maintenance to ensure broken equipment is repaired.
Transports specimens from patient divisions to clinical laboratories and operates the tube system for movement of specimens or information.
Picks up and delivers specimens to required locations as directed by the Service Response Center or shift leader.
Uses department information systems to retrieve, monitor, and perform department duties; operates and monitors the Service Response Center system.
Performs other department duties as requested, including filling isolation stations on patient-care units when necessary.
Demonstrates customer service and interacts with others in a considerate, helpful, and courteous manner.
Receives linen from the linen plant and distributes it throughout campus; transfers dirty linen to the transporting trailer for bulk linen deliveries.
Operates electric tow tractors and scooters safely.
Assists in processing contaminated Central Supply items for proper decontamination.
Accepts supplies, packages, and equipment for distribution to customer departments.
Performs purchasing-receiver duties and 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, and participates in reviews and changes to unit supply PARs.
Performs receiving functions for unit supply deliveries and supports medical supply needs of assigned units.