G4S Patient Transport Services have an opportunity for a Logistics Planner to join their team based in Chelmsford, Essex.  

As Logistics Planner, you will work effectively to plan the service for multi contracts within a your designated region, in order to achieve contractual KPI’s in a cost effective manner.

You will be required to maximise the use of available resources across all contracts, plan daily activities based on arrival and departure KPI’s, mobility type and vehicle capacity.

Other Key Responsibilities:

Identify shortfalls in resource at the earliest opportunity and escalate to Senior Planner.

Monitor activity levels to identify and highlight trends in demand or problem areas.

Ensure plans allow sufficient rest breaks for all crews.

Provide regular statistical information in respect of usage of the service.

Ensure that the transport takes place by the most efficient means within the constraints of the contractual requirements.

Work closely with the controllers and highlight any potential future missed journeys to the Logistics Specialists.

Minimise requirements for overtime and third party spend by ensuring journeys are completed within core shift times.

Develop a robust and efficient plan for the following day, ensuring the most efficient use of resource and within contractual KPI windows.

Read and review patient notes in order to plan effectively.

Ensure vehicle productivity is effectively planned in terms of patient occupancy and journeys per day to minimise wasted mileage and empty travel.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

Essential Criteria:

The ability to use Microsoft Word / Excel / Outlook.

High level of organisation skills.

High standard of verbal communication skills and well developed interpersonal skills.

Able to work within agreed parameters and with minimal supervision.

Able to work accurately under pressure.

Ability to make decisions to manage conflicting diary priorities and prioritise own work.

An understanding of data protection and the ability to maintain patient confidentiality.

Ability to work as part of a team.

Flexible, enthusiastic and committed.

We offer our employees an immense range of exciting, rewarding and long term career opportunities and benefits where they can really make a difference in a meaningful way.

 Other benefits and rewards of working for such a large organisation are:

Eye Care Vouchers – Free eye-tests/discounts for VDU users

Hospital Saturday Fund (HSF) Health Plan

Charity work- Match-IT and Payroll Giving

Employee Care Scheme (Best Doctors and First Assist Counselling Services)

Refer A Friend Scheme

Love to Shop Campaigns

You will also be provided with the opportunity to enrol into a company pension scheme and the G4S Life Assurance scheme.

This role requires the ability to work with vulnerable, frail people, with the need for medical treatment at hospitals in a caring and compassionate way. Because we are dealing with the vulnerable in a patient care environment, a full enhanced DBS check is required.

Safety is of paramount importance and the post holder must ensure that safe systems of work are followed without compromise. The post holder needs to be committed to maintaining high standards of customer care and service delivery that will include the responsibility of adequate safeguarding and prevent training and awareness and an understanding of reporting concerns to the line manager.