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Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Job Summary

Dispensing medical/surgical supplies and patient care equipment with regular guidance. Ensures appropriate supplies are ordered, received, and inventory levels are maintained. Transports medical supplies and equipment with occasional guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides materials and equipment requested in a timely manner.
• 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.
• Provides safe transport of instruments and supplies.
• Reports any accidents, violations of policy, safety hazards, or unusual occurrences.
• Loads and unloads transported cargo.

The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Technical Capabilities

• 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.
• Local Area Awareness (Intermediate): Working knowledge of roads, buildings, and places in the local area.
• Equipment Inspections (Novice): Reviews and inspections is a systematic process of checking to see whether a piece of equipment is meeting specified requirements.
• Driving Practices (Intermediate): Knowledge and use of safe and compliant driving procedures.
• Safety (Intermediate): The knowledge of and attentiveness to safety as well as compliance with the rules regarding safety.

Our supporting roles are the core of all we do at Vanderbilt Health, helping us personalize the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities. We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at VUMC for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.

We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce as we place a priority on designing with and for our patients and families.

Core Accountabilities

* Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance.

* Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.

* Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job.

* Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.

Core Capabilities

Supporting Colleagues: Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities. Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas. Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.

Delivering Excellent Services: Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service. Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner. Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.

Ensuring High Quality: Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards. Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.

Managing Resources Effectively: Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.

Fostering Innovation: Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them. Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Position Qualifications

Responsibilities: LIC-Tennessee Driver's License - F Endorsement - Tennessee

Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level: Less than 1 year

Education: High School Diploma or GED

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.

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