Job summary
- Main area
- Procurement
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time, flexible working)
- Job ref
- 427-BSWProcurementSPS
- Employer
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Can be RUH (Bath), GWH (Swindon) or SFT (Salisbury)
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/08/2024
Employer heading
Senior Procurement Senior - Capital & Clinical
7
Job overview
* Please note your employer will be Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust although you can be based at GWH, Swindon, or RUH, Bath or Salisbury District Hospitals
Interviews will be held in person in Salisbury on 16 August 2024
Do you want to make a difference and join an award-winning procurement team? Do you want to work in a fast moving, dynamic, results driven department focused on building strong working relationships with its stakeholders? Do you want to share in the pride associated with working for the NHS?
We are looking to recruit 2 Senior Procurement Manager's to join our Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients. This role is for the capital team, purchasing capital equipment and infrastructure.
We are looking to recruit 2 Senior Procurement Manager's to join our Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients. This would be for Clinical & Estates and Facilities roles.
Main duties of the job
The role promotes collaborative working across the B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire area working with numerous stakeholders and colleagues to positively impact patient care.
The successful candidates will have the flexibility to be based at either in Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust or Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. Please note applicants must have NHS experience / healthcare procurement experience.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working at a senior level within procurement
Education, Qualification /Training
Essential criteria
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply or Studying Towards (Level 4 achieved)
- CIPS Qualified (Post Graduate Diploma Level) or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or other related subject.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant category management experience, preferably at a senior level ideally in the NHS.
- Significant exposure complex contacts ideally in the public sector contracts.
- Experience of collaborative procurement, working across a large geographical area.
- Thorough understanding & previous experience of the confines of public sector procurement, the use of frameworks and Public Sector Procurement Regulations.
- Thorough understanding of products and services available to the NHS in the UK at any given time
- Supplier Management, of multiple sub categories Relationship management – internal & supplier, external.
- Highly effective communication skills including explaining in bite size yet comprehensive chunks, complex legislative changes, practices and policies.
- Competent commercial skills – tender writing, report delivery, policy implementation, processes & occasional hosting of & presenting at meetings both internal ( NHS colleagues ) and suppliers or Governing Bodies etc.
Desirable criteria
- Seeks out suitably relevant forums, groups & networks to enable knowledge growth, sharing & potential collaborations.
- Subject Matter Expert Status
- Able to share your experience & knowledge with colleagues in a subtle manner so that they become Champions of your cause
- Extensive analytical experience over prolonged periods/roles
- An understanding of standard and specialism shortages in the NHS across all job families and the ultimate cost of meeting that demand
Specific Skills
Essential criteria
- Resilient and enthusiastic, your audience may not always want to hear what you’re telling them!
- Project management skills – involving key colleagues to ensure comprehensive project scope and stakeholder driven tasks shared and completed then communicated to all concerned parties.
- Collaborative approach to suitable strategies & projects, maximising resources and knowledge of other Trusts to deliver faster, smarter projects with increased savings & quality.
- Able to work on both reactive and strategic projects at the same time.
- Self-evaluation, able to learn and improve from challenges experienced in other areas and amend project methodology accordingly.
- Numerate, able to understand complex data sets and segregate, convert to readable user friendly snap shots
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Liversage
- Job title
- Procurement Transformation Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01225826070
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