Senior Buyer | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £48,054 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, TW7 6AF |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6332160/824-CORP-3033 |
Summary
Senior Buyer band 6 (currently subject to banding review)
Senior Buyer band 6
We are looking for a Senior Buyer to lead two of our buying teams based at two of our Trusts – Royal Marsden (based at West Middx hospital) and West London NHS Trust.
The Senior Buyer is responsible for management of a delivery team of buyers and for ensuring that the service is delivered against agreed key performance indicators. The Senior Buyer is expected to ensure good levels of customer service and to take a proactive role in identifying and fixing issues, helping improve service delivery and is expected to work under their own initiative.
North West London Procurement Services (“NWL PS”) is part of Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, and provides procurement and supply chain management services across all members (“NWL Members”).
Interviews planned week commencing June 17th 2024
The Senior Buyer will work under the direction of the Head of Buying and shall be responsible for ensuring that team members are managed effectively to ensure high levels of productivity and customer service.
The post holder will be responsible for:
• Supporting member trusts in buying goods and services, in a timely manner, whilst complying with relevant governance arrangements, including Trust SFIs whilst accepting that responsibility for complying with these arrangements is a shared responsibility.
• Supporting the Relationship Manager and other stakeholders in educating users around their responsibilities to ensure good buying practice, including compliance with Trust SFIs
• Working with others to put in place and support frictionless buying process, where the requirement for buying team intervention is maintained at the lowest possible level.
• Ensuring that buying team resources are managed as effectively as possible to ensure high levels of productivity and customer service. This includes working to achieve and exceed Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and service improvement targets.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here:https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Essential criteria
• Working knowledge of Purchase Order Process systems – in particular Oracle SBS (and ideally Integra)
• Experience of transactional procurement and delivering against Key Performance Indicators and Standard Financial Instructions
• Ability to prioritise workload and ability to provide leadership to a team by role modelling expected standards of behaviour
• Good communication skills both written & verbal
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexible approach to both hours and work
• Ability to work on own initiative and problem solve
• Ability to manage own workload and that of the team
• Results focused and customer focused
Desirable criteria
• Knowledge of Integra
• Experience of working within an NHS environment
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Jun 2024