Job Description

Western Cape Blood Service is looking for an Inventory Controller with good analytical skills to join our Processing team. Do you thrive under pressure? Strive to deliver excellent professional services, you re standards driven, if so this position is for you!

Main Purpose:

To issue and dispatch a safe supply of blood and blood products to Blood Banks and Emergency Banks, ensuring that product expiries are kept to a minimum. Label tested blood and safely discard unsuitable units. Assist in mentoring new incumbents.

Responsibilities include:

• Receives and captures daily blood stock numbers from the blood banks on the BMS.
• Assesses the available stock and if sufficient, issues blood and frozen blood stock, to meet the blood banks daily requirements.
• Inspects units before issue and on return for haemolysis, clots, date bled and expiry.
• Co-ordinates all couriers, generates waybills and dispatches goods/ blood.
• Confirms temperature of incoming and outgoing blood and blood products, to determine cold chain compliance
• Rotates stock effectively to avoid unnecessary expiries (first in, first out).
• Discards excess/expired blood stock
• Completes visual check of red cell units for clots/haemolysis, to assess suitability for use.
• Co-ordinates daily cleaning and decontamination.
• Assesses the available stock and issues blood to meet the blood banks demands when local blood banks experience shortages/emergency cases
• Complies with Occupational Health and Safety Act and Safety Work Instructions with regard to proper use of personal protective equipment and prevention of accidents and incidents etc.
• Call out required after-hours and weekends

• Grade 12
• Medical Technician in Blood Transfusion/Laboratory Assistant
• Computer literate
• Must be registered with HPCSA as a Laboratory assistant.
• Must have 2 years post qualification experience.
• Drivers license (advantageous)

Western Cape Blood Service