A Vacancy at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
A newly formed Humber & North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative, hosted by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, will provide procurement and supply chain services to its Partner Trusts, and may extend over time to service other bodies within the Integrated Care System.
You will work as a Clinical Procurement Specialist responsible for looking after Orthopaedics across all Partner Trusts but also managing a team of three Clinical Procurement Specialists who look at the wider clinical consumable portfolio, one based at each Partner Trust. Acting as a clinical expert you will provide the link between Procurement and clinical colleagues across the Partner Trusts to support the delivery and development of improved performance across organisations by providing highly specialist clinical advice which supports the Partner Trusts in making safe clinical decisions in product choice and standardisation which promotes quality improvement.
You will, lead, plan and implement a variety of complex activities and change programmes across various clinical settings and ensure records are maintained, challenging clinical colleagues in their product selection and use to support standardisation, increase patient safety and deliver value for the all Partner Trusts.
Priority is to provide a first class service to clinicians, and ward staff which means that they have the right product in the right place at the right time. You will focus on achieving best value for money, reliability, responsiveness and flexibility from suppliers wishing to work with the Partner Trusts. Using your highly developed specialist clinical knowledge, expertise and experience, you will work with clinicians and other staff to achieve and sustain significant reductions in non-pay expenditure and improvements in the purchasing and stock control functions without compromising the quality of patient care or clinical outcomes.
The individual will need to be a practicing clinical professional and as such will need to maintain the skills required to undertake clinical practice to be able to provide highly specialised advice concerning care which will impact patient pathways. Assess, develop and implement specialist nursing care programmes and provide highly specialist advice to patients/ clients.
This is a key clinical specialist role where you will be accountable for your own professional actions. The successful candidate will already be operating at a level of senior clinical and managerial experience to have gained sufficient credibility and respect from their peers in order to be in a position to successfully deliver.
You will lead a team of 3 Clinical Procurement Specialists and will support them in meeting their own development needs and aspirations.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for details on the role and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Mar 2025