Job summary
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills supporting interesting and complex projects within the modern NHS commissioning environment and helping to make improvements to patient services.
Main duties of the job
South, Central and West (SCW) is an NHS organisation providing support and transformation services to health and care systems, predominantly NHS England and Integrated Care Boards.
Our award-winning procurement team of c.100 people has an interesting and diverse project portfolio, ranging from primary care services or prison healthcare through to immunisations programmes, patient transport services, digital solutions for health and a whole range of other fields, such as consultancy and professional services. Due to wide-ranging expansion of our work portfolio and customer base, we are recruiting to a number of roles in the team.
About us
SCW is flexible in terms of your working base, within our SCW office network, including homeworking options as part of working patterns. As part of your role, you will be expected, from time to time, to travel to a range of SCW and customer sites, predominantly within the South of England.
For further information about the team and our work, please visit our procurement team recruitment page. If you'd like to hear more about what we do and the exciting plans we have for the future, then please get in touch via the contact details on the page.
Website: Procurement careers - NHS SCW Support and Transformation for Health and Care (scwcsu.nhs.uk)
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will enable you to contribute towards the delivery of our annual procurement and commercial workplans, by directly advising on and managing smaller or less complex procurement and commercial projects on their behalf. You will also have a key role in providing project and systems support to other members of our team on more complex projects.
Our supportive structure is dedicated to growth from within, and we offer clear and continuous career development and progression opportunities within our thriving team.
To be successful in this role, youll be currently working towards, or willing to work towards, a Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) qualification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will enable you to contribute towards the delivery of our annual procurement and commercial workplans, by directly advising on and managing smaller or less complex procurement and commercial projects on their behalf. You will also have a key role in providing project and systems support to other members of our team on more complex projects.
Our supportive structure is dedicated to growth from within, and we offer clear and continuous career development and progression opportunities within our thriving team.
To be successful in this role, youll be currently working towards, or willing to work towards, a Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) qualification.
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of practical experience relevant to the role
- Foundation course in PRINCE2 project management (or equivalent)
- Working towards formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement or willing to study towards
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of project management and information analysis
- Experience of working in a comparable environment
- Experience of working in a customer focused environment
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience of developing and managing project plans to guide customers, project teams and key stakeholders
- Skills for communicating complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters; Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to work without supervision and on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workload to changing and often tight deadlines
- Excellent customer service skills
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
- Skills for analysing and manipulating information.
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to re-prioritise
- The ability to communicate on behalf of more senior colleagues on a wide range of issues relating to clinical procurement services, including responding to correspondence and representation at meetings.
- Ability to offer excellent customer service; attention to detail and understanding of the customer's requirements to create effective working relationships with customers and work effectively as part of both a Procurement team and wider commissioning project teams.
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of practical experience relevant to the role
- Foundation course in PRINCE2 project management (or equivalent)
- Working towards formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement or willing to study towards
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of project management and information analysis
- Experience of working in a comparable environment
- Experience of working in a customer focused environment
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience of developing and managing project plans to guide customers, project teams and key stakeholders
- Skills for communicating complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters; Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to work without supervision and on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workload to changing and often tight deadlines
- Excellent customer service skills
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
- Skills for analysing and manipulating information.
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to re-prioritise
- The ability to communicate on behalf of more senior colleagues on a wide range of issues relating to clinical procurement services, including responding to correspondence and representation at meetings.
- Ability to offer excellent customer service; attention to detail and understanding of the customer's requirements to create effective working relationships with customers and work effectively as part of both a Procurement team and wider commissioning project teams.
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
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.
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