P2P Systems Lead
The closing date is 15 December 2025
Job summary
Health Procurement Liverpool (HPL) is a single shared procurement service for:
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital;
- Cheshire & Wirral Partnership
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre;
- Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital;
- The Walton Centre.
The HPL vision is to develop a world class health procurement alliance, which creates opportunities, delivers excellence, embraces innovation, and maximises value to patient care, whilst ensuring financial sustainability.
As part of our Procurement strategy, HPL set a strategic ambition to implement a single P2P system across all HPL trusts to support quality services across the organisation.
This has resulted in the requirement to implement new P2P (Procure to Pay) systems at Liverpool Heart & Chest & The Walton Centre.
The program will be overseen by Finance, with the implementation and ongoing operation of the system a collaborative effort across corporate teams.
The candidate will also be required to work to tight deadlines with the project group and system provider, on the successful implementation and embedding of new processes to ensure that maximum benefits can be realised.
This post is a fixed term post for 6 months.
If you have a passion for improvement, are a champion for change, have strong interpersonal skills, have experience in project management and can work as part of a team, then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The P2P Systems Lead will work in partnership with all stakeholders including external stakeholders and customer base across Health Procurement Liverpool and will be responsible for the implementation and maintaining optimal system performance after migration.
The post holder will co-ordinate and conduct internal and external training and refresher training requirements for all users of the trust's P2P system.
The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing performance monitoring of the agreement the Trust has with the system provider and lead on any necessary actions to follow.
This position will be the lead role in delivering continuous improvement across the organisation including developing and influencing Health Procurement Liverpool's P2P strategy, providing expert advice and support to all Trusts as part of HPL on P2P system matters and ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are proactively engaged in projects to maximise the value of the service to all organisations where applicable.
As a Procurement team member, the post holder will be required to lead on complex and challenging initiatives relating to the P2P system, challenging the norm and providing recommendations on service improvement in terms of process and systems across all HPL sites.
The post holder will be required to manage the project with often conflicting deadlines
About us
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Details
Date posted
01 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year Per annuam
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
160-7621059
Job locations
The Walton Centre
Lower Lane
Liverpool
L9 7LJ
Employer details
Employer name
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Walton Centre
Lower Lane
Liverpool
L9 7LJ
Employer's website
https://www.thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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