Associate Clinical Supply Specialist (10am-10pm, Every Other Weekend)

About the role

With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, Vanderbilt Health is the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system, providing world-class care to the Mid-South through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. The organization fosters a collaborative, supportive community where expertise is valued, knowledge expanded and uniqueness celebrated. Organization: SC VUH Equipment Ctr. Job Summary: Dispenses medical/surgical supplies and patient care equipment with regular guidance; ensures appropriate supplies are ordered, received, and inventory levels are maintained.

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.

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

Skills

• 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.
• Equipment Inspections (Novice): Reviews and inspections is a systematic process of checking to see whether a piece of equipment is meeting specified requirements.

Requirements

• Organizational Impact: Performs clearly defined tasks and methods described in detail to achieve standardized solutions that impact own performance with regular guidance.
• Problem Solving/Complexity of work: Follows a well‑established process to solve routine problems where solutions are clearly prescribed.
• Breadth of Knowledge: Has basic job knowledge of systems and procedures that are common to the job.
• Team Interaction: Individually contributes to the team.
• Delivering Excellent Services – Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
• Delivering Excellent Services – Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
• Delivering Excellent Services – 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.
• Ensuring High Quality – Ensures Continuous Improvement: Shows eagerness to learn new knowledge, technologies, tools or systems and displays willingness to go above and beyond.
• Ensuring High Quality – 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.
• Managing Resources Effectively – Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
• Managing Resources Effectively – 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.
• Fostering Innovation – Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
• Fostering Innovation – Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.