Utility Worker, Supply and Distribution

1 month ago

Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company** : IWK Health**:
**Requisition ID**:169618**
**Location**:Halifax**
**Type of Employment**:Casual Relief x **1** position(s)**
**Start Date**:ASAP**
**Union Status**:Unifor Service**, **Support** Bargaining Unit**
**Compensation**: $**19.2338****:

- **$**20.7782**/hour**
**Closing Date**:5-Dec-23** (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)**:
**Department/Program**:Logistics Supply & Distribution, Facilities & Environmental Services

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

**The Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Manager, Supply and Distribution, the Utility Worker works as part of a team to ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of service. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: moving furniture and/or equipment, including transport of cribs/beds/cots between units; transporting lab specimens to/from the Mackenzie Building and Tupper Research and within the Health Centre; picking/packing/delivering stock supplies requisitioned from the Stores area, completing the required paperwork and cleaning up materials; delivering throughout the Health Centre, items from Pharmacy, portable medical gas cylinders, prepared sterile items, clean case carts and clean instrument carts; collecting soiled linen and soiled instrument carts; completing exchange cart quotas and unit top-up quotas; dealing with customer inquiries/orders (including telephone requests) in a timely and professional manner, ensuring all necessary information is logged; providing relief for the Dispatch Clerk during absences from the Distribution desk; preparing and delivering medical/surgical and I.V. bins to the Birth Unit and collecting and sorting returned items to the bin prep area in Distribution; delivering direct purchase items from the Receiving area to ordering departments and ensuring that proper documentation is processed; providing after hours coverage of the CSPD, Laundry areas and the Pharmacy night cupboard; preparing linen distribution carts for delivery; delivering various linen carts as required; other related duties as assigned.

**Hours of Work**:
7.5 to 11.25-hour shifts. Rotational schedule, primarily backshift but flexibility is required. Includes weekdays, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

**Your Qualifications**:

- Minimum High School Diploma or G.E.D. required
- Previous work experience in Supply and Distribution an asset
- Able to attend and complete scheduled shifts on a regular and timely basis
- Flexibility in performing daily work assignments
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize daily tasks to ensure the needs of our customers are met
- Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently and to make sound decisions with mínimal supervision
- Knowledge of hospital layout, computerized inventory systems and prior experience working in a team setting, preferred
- Competency in other languages an asset.

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.

This is a Support bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials. Additionally, as per Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 Vaccine mandate, any offer of employment will be conditional upon submitting proof of full vaccination status. Medical exceptions or any other kind of requested exception based upon the Health Centre’s obligations pursuant to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis

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