Job summary
A Junior Buyer supports the procurement team by managing day-to-day purchasing, maintaining product catalogues, and securing value-for-money goods/services. Key responsibilities include creating purchase orders, liaising with suppliers, resolving invoice queries, managing contract compliance, and ensuring timely delivery of goods
Main duties of the job
Procurement Management: Running procurement projects from identification of need to contract award, including tender selection and evaluation.
Supplier & Contract Management: Liaising with suppliers to expedite orders, manage performance, and handle returns or credit notes.
Transactional Purchasing: Processing requests through and managing maintenance contracts.
Financial Control: Assisting budget holders by identifying and recording savings/efficiencies to ensure compliance with financial regulations.
Administrative Support: Maintaining accurate records on contract registers and managing corporate purchasing cards.
Junior buyers ensure that clinical and non-clinical teams have the products needed, balancing quality with budgetary restrictions.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.netAttached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.netAttached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of purchasing principles acquired through training and/or experience.
Skills
Essential
- Liaises with suppliers to encourage them to meet organisational purchasing needs and persuades customers/users to use contract arrangements
- Assesses customer requirements, determines the appropriate supplier, using quotes or contract awards.
- Plans workload to ensure all order requests are processed, contracts reviewed/renewed and reports produced within set timescale.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of purchasing principles acquired through training and/or experience.
Skills
Essential
- Liaises with suppliers to encourage them to meet organisational purchasing needs and persuades customers/users to use contract arrangements
- Assesses customer requirements, determines the appropriate supplier, using quotes or contract awards.
- Plans workload to ensure all order requests are processed, contracts reviewed/renewed and reports produced within set timescale.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
