National Medicine Supply Operative 

24 hours per week

Based in Ossett (WF5)

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Cycle to work scheme 
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,200 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response and Night Time Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

You will assist in the building and returning of life-saving medicine packs; ensuring all packs are safe, legal, and properly kitted. You will also process medicine pack returns, checking for compliancy and returning of medicines in a safe and legal manner. You will play an important role in the day-to-day operations of the medicine store, ensuring that operational duties and administration is undertaken in an efficient, correct, and timely manner following national processes.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Educated to GCSE level (Grade C) or equivalent inc. Maths & English
• UK driving licence 
• Experience of working within a small team environment undertaking administration and using basic level IT applications 
• Strong customer service skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels 
• Ability to prioritise with good attention to detail 

About the Role 

• Follow national policies and procedures in relation to medicine supply and management for SJA 
• Working within the National Medicine Supply Service stores on a daily basis 
• Assist in the building, processing of returns and quality assurance checks of medicine packs for first aid services, ambulance operations and community projects
• Assist the National Medicine Supply Service team in ensuring that the medicines store is appropriately stocked and clean; ensuring that all necessary records are kept verifying this
• Support employees and volunteers nationally to facilitate service delivery and safe working practice 

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply) 

To find out more about us visit www.sja.org.uk or follow us on our socials

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here:  Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.

Please note: This role may be subject to a DBS check as part of our pre-employment screening

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.