Job summary
You will work as a Clinical Procurement Specialist within one of the Partner Trusts as a credible clinical expert providing the link between Procurement and clinical colleagues within the Trust.
You will act as the lead specialist supporting the delivery and development of improved performance across organisations by providing highly specialist clinical advice which supports the Trust in making safe clinical decisions in product choice and standardisation which promotes quality improvement.
You will, through the agreed governance structure, lead, plan and implement a variety of complex activities and change programmes across various clinical settings and ensure records are maintained, challenging clinical colleagues in their product selection and use to support standardisation, increase patient safety and deliver value for the Trust through the Collaborative.
Provides specialist training around product use, support product trials, ensuring evaluations are fairly undertaken and feedback is captured.
Main duties of the job
You can select a base , although will be expected to attend all Trust sites. Flexible working is promoted, you will be expected to manage own time in the most efficiently to meet deadlines and achieve objectives.
Priority is to provide a first class service to clinicians and ward staff, which means the right product in the right place at the right time. You will focus on achieving best value for money, reliability, responsiveness and flexibility from suppliers wishing to work with the Partner Trusts.
Using highly developed specialist clinical knowledge, expertise and experience, you will work with clinicians and others to achieve and sustain significant reductions in non-pay expenditure, improvements in the purchasing and stock control functions without compromising the quality of patient care or clinical outcomes.
You will need to be a practicing clinical professional and will need to maintain the skills required to undertake clinical practice, to be able to provide specialised advice concerning care which will impact patient pathways.
Assess, develop and implement specialist nursing care programmes and provide highly specialist advice to patients/ clients.
This is a key clinical specialist role, you will be accountable for your own professional actions.
You will already be operating at a level of senior clinical and managerial experience to have gained sufficient credibility and respect from their peers in order to be in a position to successfully deliver.
About us
The three Partner Trusts have set an objective of creating a single procurement function which will help support the sustainable provision of clinical and non-clinical services.
A newly formed Humber & North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative, hosted by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, will provide procurement and supply chain services to its Partner Trusts, and may extend over time to service other bodies within the Integrated Care System.
During the application and interview process applicants are expected to evidence how procurement can support good quality care, financialbalance and support the creation of new and existing teams.You may want to take time reflecting about how you might support us to:1. Get procurement closer to our customer.2. Move as close to a single way of working across all three trust.3. Build category strategies which consider how appropriate it is to buy as one versus those instances where buying locally gives us thebest outcome.4. Challenge how we buy - is it right or could we do things differently?5. Explore and embed innovation.6. Ensure there is earlier engagement with our customers to make a difference.7. Support standardisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting Humber & North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative in delivering its 10 aims and objectives:
1. Supports the aims and vision of the ICS and collaborative members.2. Creates a single procurement function which will help support the sustainable provision of clinical and non-clinical services.3. Establishes the collaborative as a centre of procurement and commercial excellence which provides procurement and commercialservices to its member organisations.4. Supports supplier rationalisation and cost savings.5. Ensures standardised robust product selection and range management practices are in place.6. Ensures that policies, practices and procedures are standardised and provide for the effective provision of procurement to thecollaborative trusts.7. Ensures innovative and robust Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).8. Develops P2P e-commerce processes and systems to ensure smooth and efficient processing for all purchasing requirements.9. Enables effective partnering with senior stakeholders, internal customers and suppliers.10. Ensures all staff are given the opportunity to develop their potential.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Supporting Humber & North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative in delivering its 10 aims and objectives:
1. Supports the aims and vision of the ICS and collaborative members.2. Creates a single procurement function which will help support the sustainable provision of clinical and non-clinical services.3. Establishes the collaborative as a centre of procurement and commercial excellence which provides procurement and commercialservices to its member organisations.4. Supports supplier rationalisation and cost savings.5. Ensures standardised robust product selection and range management practices are in place.6. Ensures that policies, practices and procedures are standardised and provide for the effective provision of procurement to thecollaborative trusts.7. Ensures innovative and robust Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).8. Develops P2P e-commerce processes and systems to ensure smooth and efficient processing for all purchasing requirements.9. Enables effective partnering with senior stakeholders, internal customers and suppliers.10. Ensures all staff are given the opportunity to develop their potential.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Requires highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level.
- Registered healthcare professional.
Desirable
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a senior clinical leader.
- Experience of implementing strategy with evidence of monetary savings and innovative ways of working.
Desirable
- NHS experience.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of performance measurement.
- Demonstrable knowledge of risk assessment and contingency planning.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Requires highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level.
- Registered healthcare professional.
Desirable
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a senior clinical leader.
- Experience of implementing strategy with evidence of monetary savings and innovative ways of working.
Desirable
- NHS experience.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of performance measurement.
- Demonstrable knowledge of risk assessment and contingency planning.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
