Lead Pharmacy Medicines Purchasing Officer | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, W12 0HS |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7380402/290-WCCS-2059 |
Summary
We invite you to join our team in the dynamic role of a Lead Pharmacy Medicines Purchasing Officer. If you have a passion for connecting the dots within our Pharmacy team, then this opportunity might just be the perfect fit for you.
The purpose of this post is to work in the pharmacy purchasing office. The team consists of administration staff working alongside pharmacy technicians to ensure the timely and cost effective purchasing of medicines for all inpatient pharmacies across the four sites at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The post holder is responsible managing the people, processes and performance of the team, as well as managing the planning and prioritisation of work.
• To manage the day-to-day running of the purchasing office on the Hammersmith Hospital site, ensuring staff purchase medicines in line with Trust procedures.
• To manage the day-to-day activities of the purchasing office, with support from the Lead Pharmacy Technician, Purchasing when necessary.
• To deputise for Lead Pharmacy Technician, Purchasing in her absence.
• To ensure the team take appropriate action where items are out of stock.
• To ensure contracts, price agreements and consortium buying deals are adhered to and that off contract purchases are approved appropriately.
• To ensure the team carry out the cost effective procurement of non-contract lines.
• To ensure that all price discrepancies are investigated and dealt with appropriately and in a timely manner. Ensuring pricing issues are communicated to the Lead Pharmacy Technician, Purchasing when necessary.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Monday 11 Aug 2025