Senior Transactional Buyer GWH (Based Salisbury, Swindon & Bath)
This role has a base of either Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Swindon) or Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Bath)
Are you ambitious, would you welcome a challenge and embrace change?
We're looking for someone to join the B&NES Swindon and Wiltshire Acute Hospital Alliance Procurement Service delivering collaborative procurement and commercial support to Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT), Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GWH), Wiltshire Health and Care (WHC) and Royal United Hospital Bath (RUH).
This is an exciting time to join SFT, a service that is leading the way in procurement collaboration across the region and is recognised nationally by its peers as an award-winning leader in collaboration.
We are keen to develop the service and our people. We believe that our staff should be encouraged to develop, grow and embrace our values which will enable us to embrace innovation, deliver excellence and value within our procurement activities and strive to become a world-class procurement function of the future.
This role is perfect for someone wanting to take that next step in their career or for someone looking for a new chapter in their career.
SFT will give you the platform to showcase your skills within a supportive and forward-thinking team. If this sounds like the challenge for you, apply now!
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate(s) will have the flexibility to travel on occasion to any of the Trusts in Bath, Swindon or Salisbury and will undertake procurement activity for all Trusts within the B&NES Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and consequently will be required to split their time across the organisations accordingly. This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days in the office after completion of a successful induction period.
The post holder will support the Transactional Procurement Manager to lead and develop the invoice team to provide an efficient and high-quality service to all stakeholders by managing a small team to undertake the day-to-day activities.
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 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.
Job responsibilities
We need you to be a self-starter, tenacious and adaptable with excellent relationship management skills such that you can champion the Procurement Vision whilst delivering the aims of the numerous divisions you will be working with. You need to have a willingness to learn, be resilient and able to thrive in an ever-changing, often demanding environment, embracing a team approach to success.
Person Specification
Administration Experience
* Suitable academic qualifications
* Experience of Finance systems
* Systems and data
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.
Head of Operational Procurement & Systems
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata if part time
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