Duke Homecare & Hospice Duke Homecare & Hospice offers hospice, home health and infusion services as well as serves as the home for the Duke Caregiver Support Program. Our Hospice team works closely with a patient's physician to provide comprehensive, individualized care in the comfort their home or at our inpatient hospice facility located in Durham. Our team of nurses, therapists, social workers, counselors, and chaplains help patients and their families manage advanced medical conditions. Duke Home Health provides services in a patient's home that include skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, social service, home health aides, and pain and wound management. Our infusion team comes to a patient's home to administer intravenous medications, including antibiotics and chemotherapy, to children and adults. Our nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, and patient services coordinators work under the direction of a patient's doctor to monitor needs and treatment.

Patient Supply Associate II

FLSA: N

Job Code: 4116 

Pay Target: B2

Supervisory Responsibility: Yes 

***Work Schedule is Monday-Friday the department will predetermine the hours.***

General Description of the Job Class

Coordinate and perform a variety of tasks relating to the ordering, receiving, recordkeeping and distribution of required patient care supplies for assigned Duke Hospital inpatient or support units to ensure adequate inventory.

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level

Order, receive, store, inventory and distribute a variety of supplies for an assigned area in accordance with established policies and procedures; transmit requests for items to Materials Management utilizing data terminal.

Periodically inspect cart to ensure all items are in assigned locations; remove, replace and report any expired or sterile items with broken packaging.

Regulate and track property assigned to the team to include carts shelving and labeling materials and notebooks; monitor the use of assigned team property. Maintain interface with professional and administrative personnel to coordinate supply activities and to resolve problems; inform central distribution manager of any problems or complaints.

Recommend cart inventory additions and deletions to professional and/or administrative personnel based on monthly usage figures.

Assist in planning, scheduling and assigning tasks to a team of Patient Supply Clerks.

Assist in training of new personnel and conducting semiannual appraisals of team members.

Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education: Work requires the ability to screen, evaluate and log information from requisitions and to complete daily operational paperwork generally acquired through a high school education.

Experience: One year of experience in a hospital material control or related setting to acquire sufficient knowledge of products, advise users and suggest substitutions.

OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE.

A valid North Carolina Driver's license may be required.

Job Code: 00004116 PATIENT SUPPLY ASSOCIATE II
Job Level: B2

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