Buying Support Officer
The closing date is 12 April 2026
Job summary
Contributes to the delivery of outstanding patient care:The main purpose of the post is to provide procurement support across the Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and any other stakeholder organisations.This role will be to assist the Procurement Team in the day to day effective operation of the service. Tasks include updating and maintaining procurement systems including the Procurement Catalogues, Unit 4 (Agresso) integration, Contracts Database and Stock Management systems.Liaising with the Procurement Team, Customers and Suppliers around issues and queries to ensure an effective and cost efficient service is delivered, ensuring a first class customer service is maintained at all times.This is a demanding role within Procurement which requires accuracy, working to tight deadlines and compliance to policies and procedures to ensure that Key Performance metrics and targets are met at all times.Promote the role and raise awareness of the department, offering advice and guidance to departments in subject areas relevant to this post.
Ensure commitment towards quality standards and improving the department's key performance metrics including Model Hospital and Lord Carter metrics.
Maintain awareness of the relevance of good governance or similar control standards
Main duties of the job
Managing queries
Supporting the buying team
Catalogue management
Supplier and stakeholder liaison
Communicating with suppliers
Low value sourcing of products and services
Record keeping
Preparing KPI data
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
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Details
Date posted
26 March 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£24,471 a year Per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
166-DSFS-7864781
Job locations
Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Top Road, Calow
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
Employer details
Employer name
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Top Road, Calow
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
Employer's website
https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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