Dispatch Assistant

Sinai Health is a leading academic health science centre with a provincial, national and international reputation for discovering and delivering life-changing care. We provide excellent and compassionate care in hospital, community and home. Comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital, Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and our system partner Circle of Care, we translate scientific breakthroughs, push boundaries for health solutions, and educates future clinical and scientific leaders.

These are unprecedented times in healthcare and the COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for a** Dispatch Assistant** to support our **Materials Management department** at Mount Sinai Hospital.

An integral member of Materials Management, the Dispatch Assistant must perform all duties in compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Responsible for the daily replenishment/distribution of stock items to Nursing, Clinical and Support areas. Required to use state of the art technologies to count inventory in designated locations each day, entering counts from pre-established quotas to determine order quantities, transmitting orders via scanner technology to the offsite warehouse, putting away stock in a timely manner, responding to emergency calls from Nursing units, performing all duties in compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act, performing cross functional duties as assigned and/or required, performing other duties consistent with the job classification, as assigned and/or required, may be required to perform Receiver duties on an as needed bases (eg. vacation, sick, coverage)
- Responsibility for daily cart replenishment/distribution of items distributed through the stockless program.
- Monitors cart activity and reports deficiencies, eg missing barcodes, rapidly depleting quotas, item errors etc. to Management
- Maintains clean, organized and properly labeled carts.
- Ensures stock items are rotated, to reduce potential of obsolesce and expiry
- Transfer stock between carts to ensure no stock out; report same to Supervisor MM
- Responsibility for ensuring that supplies received from the warehouse are marshaled correctly prior to delivery to the floors.
- Reviews quantities received against quantities ordered, check discrepancies, shortages, over shipments or breakage, following established procedures and reports discrepancies to Supervisor in a timely manner.
- Ensures empty carts, skids and totes are returned to Central Stores for return to offsite warehouse, including removing and returning recycling to approved cart
- Exercise safe handling/transport of goods throughout the Hospital
- Other duties as required by Manager
- Job Requirements- Successful completion of Secondary School Diploma required
- 1 year of recent and related experience required
- Experience with inventory distribution and replenishment required
- Experience with Medical/Surgical Supplies preferred
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and read using English in order to effectively perform the requirements of the position
- Ability to use equipment common to the work being performed such as computerized inventory systems, scanner technology, photocopier and telephone, etc.
- Ability to adapt to technological changes to perform job function
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and to push carts up to 500lbs
- Ability to walk, stand, crouch for long periods of time
- Ability to perform duties in a professional and courteous manner and produce high quality work while meeting deadlines
- Exercise initiative and good judgment with ability to multi-task
- Client service oriented, with ability to effectively work with diversity and appreciate that people with different opinions, backgrounds, and characteristics bring richness to the challenge or situation at hand
- Demonstrated satisfactory work performance attendance history