Job summary
* Please note your employer will be Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust although you can be based at GWH, Swindon, or RUH, Bath or Salisbury District Hospitals
Interviews will be held in person in Salisbury on 16 August 2024
Do you want to make a difference and join an award-winning procurement team? Do you want to work in a fast moving, dynamic, results driven department focused on building strong working relationships with its stakeholders? Do you want to share in the pride associated with working for the NHS?
We are looking to recruit 2 Senior Procurement Manager's to join our Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients. This role is for the capital team, purchasing capital equipment and infrastructure.
We are looking to recruit 2 Senior Procurement Manager's to join our Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients. This would be for Clinical & Estates and Facilities roles.
Main duties of the job
The role promotes collaborative working across the B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire area working with numerous stakeholders and colleagues to positively impact patient care.
The successful candidates will have the flexibility to be based at either in Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust or Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. Please note applicants must have NHS experience / healthcare procurement experience.
About us
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working at a senior level within procurement
Education, Qualification /Training
Essential
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply or Studying Towards (Level 4 achieved)
- CIPS Qualified (Post Graduate Diploma Level) or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable
- Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or other related subject.
Experience
Essential
- Significant category management experience, preferably at a senior level ideally in the NHS.
- Significant exposure complex contacts ideally in the public sector contracts.
- Experience of collaborative procurement, working across a large geographical area.
- Thorough understanding & previous experience of the confines of public sector procurement, the use of frameworks and Public Sector Procurement Regulations.
- Thorough understanding of products and services available to the NHS in the UK at any given time
- Supplier Management, of multiple sub categories Relationship management - internal & supplier, external.
- Highly effective communication skills including explaining in bite size yet comprehensive chunks, complex legislative changes, practices and policies.
- Competent commercial skills - tender writing, report delivery, policy implementation, processes & occasional hosting of & presenting at meetings both internal ( NHS colleagues ) and suppliers or Governing Bodies etc.
Desirable
- Seeks out suitably relevant forums, groups & networks to enable knowledge growth, sharing & potential collaborations.
- Subject Matter Expert Status
- Able to share your experience & knowledge with colleagues in a subtle manner so that they become Champions of your cause
- Extensive analytical experience over prolonged periods/roles
- An understanding of standard and specialism shortages in the NHS across all job families and the ultimate cost of meeting that demand
Specific Skills
Essential
- Resilient and enthusiastic, your audience may not always want to hear what you're telling them!
- Project management skills - involving key colleagues to ensure comprehensive project scope and stakeholder driven tasks shared and completed then communicated to all concerned parties.
- Collaborative approach to suitable strategies & projects, maximising resources and knowledge of other Trusts to deliver faster, smarter projects with increased savings & quality.
- Able to work on both reactive and strategic projects at the same time.
- Self-evaluation, able to learn and improve from challenges experienced in other areas and amend project methodology accordingly.
- Numerate, able to understand complex data sets and segregate, convert to readable user friendly snap shots
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working at a senior level within procurement
Education, Qualification /Training
Essential
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply or Studying Towards (Level 4 achieved)
- CIPS Qualified (Post Graduate Diploma Level) or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable
- Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or other related subject.
Experience
Essential
- Significant category management experience, preferably at a senior level ideally in the NHS.
- Significant exposure complex contacts ideally in the public sector contracts.
- Experience of collaborative procurement, working across a large geographical area.
- Thorough understanding & previous experience of the confines of public sector procurement, the use of frameworks and Public Sector Procurement Regulations.
- Thorough understanding of products and services available to the NHS in the UK at any given time
- Supplier Management, of multiple sub categories Relationship management - internal & supplier, external.
- Highly effective communication skills including explaining in bite size yet comprehensive chunks, complex legislative changes, practices and policies.
- Competent commercial skills - tender writing, report delivery, policy implementation, processes & occasional hosting of & presenting at meetings both internal ( NHS colleagues ) and suppliers or Governing Bodies etc.
Desirable
- Seeks out suitably relevant forums, groups & networks to enable knowledge growth, sharing & potential collaborations.
- Subject Matter Expert Status
- Able to share your experience & knowledge with colleagues in a subtle manner so that they become Champions of your cause
- Extensive analytical experience over prolonged periods/roles
- An understanding of standard and specialism shortages in the NHS across all job families and the ultimate cost of meeting that demand
Specific Skills
Essential
- Resilient and enthusiastic, your audience may not always want to hear what you're telling them!
- Project management skills - involving key colleagues to ensure comprehensive project scope and stakeholder driven tasks shared and completed then communicated to all concerned parties.
- Collaborative approach to suitable strategies & projects, maximising resources and knowledge of other Trusts to deliver faster, smarter projects with increased savings & quality.
- Able to work on both reactive and strategic projects at the same time.
- Self-evaluation, able to learn and improve from challenges experienced in other areas and amend project methodology accordingly.
- Numerate, able to understand complex data sets and segregate, convert to readable user friendly snap shots
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Can be RUH (Bath), GWH (Swindon) or SFT (Salisbury)
Royal United Hospital
Bath
BA1 3NG
Employer's website
https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
