Location: Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy / Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
Our Vision for NHS Fife is that everyone can live longer, healthier lives at home, or in a homely setting. We will have a healthcare system with integrated health and social care, and a focus on prevention, anticipation and supported self-management.
Thank you for your interest in our Supply Chain Assistant role within the procurement team of our Finance Directorate. This role is key to delivering effective and efficient Ward Product Management (WPM) services, providing essential and critical supplies across NHS Fife to ensure suitable products are available when required for excellent patient care.
You will be customer focused, ideally with experience of working in a stock management role and/or in a healthcare setting. Will be educated to Standard Grade level, or equivalent relevant experience. Excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills are essential, together with the ability to work with the other members of the WPM team to deliver effective services across NHS Fife. The ability to work to tight deadlines on your own initiative is key.
Working arrangements will be ward/department, and office-based environments. Our office working is based in Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy and Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline.
Join a dynamic and first-class working culture, where your contribution is valued, and you can help us deliver our mission: Transforming health and care in Fife to be the best.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.