Inventory Specialist

Requisition ID
2025-417998
Department
Central Sterilization
Hours / Pay Period
80
Shift
Day
Standard Hours
Monday - Friday (7:00am - 3:30pm)
Location
KY-LEXINGTON
Posted Pay Range
$15.61 - $22.34 /hour

Overview

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well-being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). 

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. 

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Responsibilities

Job Summary / Purpose

Duties include management of inventory as it relates to picking products, replenishing, and requisitioning within assigned areas of high value goods, such as Surgical Services, Cath Lab, EP and Imaging. Duties are not limited to the supply room, but extend to all areas of the hospital. Responsible for pulling products for cases as assigned. Monitors and assures inventory levels meet demand tracking usage & setting inventory levels for specific group of products, in support of PAR & Perpetual locations.


Essential Functions

  • Restocks supplies daily and rotates inventory supporting accurate inventory levels, generating orders/requisitions as needed
  • Distributes medical supplies and equipment to patient care areas
  • Monitors par levels for specific products to assure that appropriate levels are established in order not to affect patient care
  • Identifies excess inventory, returning stock and processing credits
  • Notifies supervisor of outdates or slow moving inventory
  • Participates in the put away and validation process of perpetual inventory items
  • Issues and credits materials from the inventory management point-of-use system
  • Labels bins and handles requests to change pars
  • Maintains clean and orderly stock locations
  • Acts as liaison between clinical staff and supply chain management for assigned high value areas, such as Surgical Services, Cath Lab, EP and Imaging
  • Works in collaboration with reprocessing resources, leadership, and buyers to optimize usage of reprocessed products
  • Conducts annual inventory count to determine asset value and additional inventories as requested
  • Manages consigned inventory and processes bill-only as appropriate


The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • High School Graduate or High School GED 

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