Job summary
A fantastic opportunity to work in a dynamic Clinical Engineering Department to provide procurement support in purchasing medical equipment and service contracts for medical devices.
Main duties of the job
To be part of a Clinical Engineering team seeking to ensure that new and existing areas of expenditure are submitted to appropriate procurement processes to deliver cash releasing savings opportunities to the trust's directorates.
To undertake projects covering both medical and non-medical commodity areas, achieving the best possible value for money for the Trust(s).
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience post-graduate analytical/statistical/ medical technology techniques and procedures, acquired through degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience.
Desirable
- Professional membership of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in a Contracts environment.
- Experience of working on projects with high volumes of data / multi sites.
- Experience of working within a medical devices management area.
- Experience of market testing of suppliers and self-delivery.
Desirable
- Some experience of operational service delivery, particularly in a Healthcare environment would be beneficial and desirable.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent analytic, problem solving and process mapping skills.
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office.
- Developing cost models to formulate cost assumptions and actuals into investment cases for individual contracts with support of finance
- Ability to motivate and control large multi skilled contract teams.
- Have specialised technical knowledge in specified speciality.
- Ability to deliver high standards of front of house diplomacy and service.
- Work unsupervised and under pressure in order to meet deadlines
- Innovative problem-solving ability
- Ability to work on various IT systems.
- Ability to effectively participate in multiple maintenance contracts procurement, ensuring best value and service.
Desirable
- Skills in service development.
- Knowledge in managing in a healthcare environment.
- Ability to produce technical reports.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience post-graduate analytical/statistical/ medical technology techniques and procedures, acquired through degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience.
Desirable
- Professional membership of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in a Contracts environment.
- Experience of working on projects with high volumes of data / multi sites.
- Experience of working within a medical devices management area.
- Experience of market testing of suppliers and self-delivery.
Desirable
- Some experience of operational service delivery, particularly in a Healthcare environment would be beneficial and desirable.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent analytic, problem solving and process mapping skills.
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office.
- Developing cost models to formulate cost assumptions and actuals into investment cases for individual contracts with support of finance
- Ability to motivate and control large multi skilled contract teams.
- Have specialised technical knowledge in specified speciality.
- Ability to deliver high standards of front of house diplomacy and service.
- Work unsupervised and under pressure in order to meet deadlines
- Innovative problem-solving ability
- Ability to work on various IT systems.
- Ability to effectively participate in multiple maintenance contracts procurement, ensuring best value and service.
Desirable
- Skills in service development.
- Knowledge in managing in a healthcare environment.
- Ability to produce technical reports.
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).
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).
