Supply Chain Assistant

Job details

• Job reference: 247501
• Salary: Band 2 (£26,696 - £28,988)
• Job closing date: 10/06/2026
• Job Type: Support Services
• Location: University Hospital Hairmyres
• Employment type: Fixed-term or Secondment
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 03/06/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
• Department: Procurement Logistics

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

To support the Board’s procurement, logistics and supply chain activities, ensuring these are carried-out in compliance with the Board Standing Financial Instructions and deliver continuity of supply through providing an efficient and professional service to all wards and departments

Please note this is a fixed term post until March 2027. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

In this key role, you will:

• Responsible for the purchase of all delegated goods and services for the Board, in compliance with the Board's standing financial instructions as instructed by the first-line supervisor and senior management.
• Offer professional supplies support to all user departments including product information and pricing where appropriate.
• Providing provisional pricing and sourcing information for indents/requests from wards and departments whilst ensuring the utilisation of NHS Scotland and health board frameworks and contracts to the maximum extent.
• Expediting of all orders to ensure delivery timescales are met and appropriate paper-work passed for invoice processing.

What You'll Bring:

• Knowledge in using an integrated computer system is essential and experience in maintaining and updating system information is necessary.
• The post holder must be highly IT literate.
• The post holder should have 4 Standard Grades or be educated to SVQ2 level or equivalent.

Or

• The post holder should have 2 years’ experience in delivering customer focussed services and have strong communication and team-working skills are necessary.

Please note: A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Dave Greenhough, Stores & Logistics Manager on dave.greenhough@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Marion Bisset, Recruitment Administrator on marion.bisset@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.