Job overview
This role has a base of either Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust,, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Swindon) or Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Bath)
Are you ambitious, would you welcome a challenge and embrace change?
We’re looking for someone to join the B&NES Swindon and Wiltshire Acute Hospital Alliance Procurement Service delivering collaborative procurement and commercial support to Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT), Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH), Wiltshire Health and Care (WHC) and Royal United Hospital Bath (RUH).
This is an exciting time to join SFT, a service that is leading the way in procurement collaboration across the region and is recognise nationally by it’s peers as an award winning leader in collaboration.
We are keen to develop the service and most importantly our people, we believe that our staff should be encouraged to develop, grow and embrace our values which will enable us to embrace innovation, deliver excellence and value within our procurement activities and strive to become a world class procurement function of the future.
This role is perfect for someone wanting to take that next step in their career or for someone looking for a new chapter in their career.
SFT will give you the platform to showcase your skills, within a supportive and forward thinking team. If this sounds like the challenge for you, apply now!
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate(s) will have the flexibility to travel on occasion to any of the Trusts in Bath, Swindon or Salisbury and will undertake procurement activity for all Trusts within the B&NES Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and consequently will be required to split their time across the organisations accordingly. This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days in the office. After completion of a successful induction period.
Post holder will support Invoice & No-PO Manager to lead and develop the invoice team to provide an efficient and high-quality service to all stakeholders by managing a small team to undertake the day-to-day activities.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We need you to be a self-starter, tenacious and adaptable with excellent relationship management skills such that you can champion the Procurement Vision whilst delivering the aims of the numerous divisions you will be working with. You need to have a willingness to learn, be resilient and able to thrive in an ever changing, often demanding environment, embracing a team approach to success.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Administration Experience
Essential criteria
1. Suitable academic qualifications
2. Experience of Finance systems
3. Systems and data
4. Procurement experience
Desirable criteria
5. Supervisory experience
6. Experience of Microsoft Packages
These include but aren't limited to:-
7. Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
8. Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
9. An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
10. Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
11. Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
12. An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
13. Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
14. Cycle to work scheme
15. Uniform provided (where required)
16. On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
17. On site health and fitness club
18. On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
19. Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.