Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

Job summary

The Pharmacy Purchasing Officer provides clerical and administrative support to the pharmaceutical ordering system, processing over 20,000 orders per year for medicines throughout the organisation.

Responsible for placing and processing orders for pharmaceutical products, validating invoice prices and processing these for payment.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for placing orders for medicines on the pharmacy stock control computer system in line NHS Contracts and sending through GHX Powergate.

Liaises with suppliers to source products, which may involve arranging urgent deliveries and liaising with the Pharmacy Technicians for Procurement, if difficulties arise.

Updating the departmental bulletin board with "To Follow" information and cascading information as appropriate to managers.

Sourcing suppliers, raising, processing, chasing, confirming and checking prices of medicines.

Passing invoices and credits for payment and maintaining a database for non-stock orders and payments to facilitate budgetary management.

Filing of purchase orders to correct locations and assisting with the storage and retention of Pharmacy documentation.

Assist in the counting and ordering of Medical gases.

Assist in processing invoices.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.