To act as Senior Buyer / Contract Manager within the Procurement Shared Service on a 12 month fixed term contract, with responsibility for the Contract Management Process and platform, and also to assist the Procurement Managers in providing an efficient and effective Procurement Service across the Foundation Group.
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust (GEH), South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) and Wye Valley NHS Trust (WVT) share the same Chair and Chief Executive and have formed a Foundation Group.
The structure of the team is based upon category and project management principles to ensure delivery of controlled category spend via catalogues and to support high value complex procurement for all organisations in the group.
The Procurement Officer role within the Foundation Group Procurement Shared Service will take responsibility for the provision of catalogue management within the function. Alongside this, the role will also carry out secure and compliant procurement processes to obtain best value for money in the procurement of all goods and services in support of the achievement of the agreed procurement savings targets. The role will also provide supervisory leadership when required.
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on-Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence: We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
For further details / informal visits contact:
1. Name: Chris Dobson
2. Job title: Deputy Head of Procurement
3. Email address: christopher.dobson@swft.nhs.uk
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