Clinical Procurement Specialist

Job summary

12 month Secondment opportunity

The Procurement Department is seeking a motivated and forward thinking individual to play a key role in delivering a cost effective, efficient and responsive procurement service for the Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional person with the vision, drive and skills to help strengthen the impact of clinical based procurement across the organisation. Working closely with the Clinical Procurement Nurse Lead, you will support the team in raising the profile of clinical procurement, ensuring it continues to add real value to patient care and the wider Trust.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Be part of the Clinical Procurement team, embedded in the Strategic Procurement team who undertake a pivotal role in delivering significant value and cost improvement in a creative, strategic and innovative way relating to commercial income and expenditure contracts in order to assist the Trust in meeting its financial targets and objectives, alongside safe and effective patient care delivery.
• Work with the procurement team, nurses and other clinical staff to identify products where quality can be maintained or enhanced and costs can be reduced in line with the model hospital, productivity and efficiency.
• Work with the Clinical Procurement Nurse Lead to support the delivery of specified clinical procurement projects, within agreed timelines, requiring the specialist knowledge and skills provided through professional registration, either in nursing/ midwifery or other qualified health care professionals.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.