Job Description

This role has a base of either Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, , Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Swindon) or Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Bath)



A re you ambitious, would you welcome a challenge and embrace change? Do you want to make a difference and join an award-winning procurement team? Do you want to work in a fast moving, dynamic, results driven department focused on building strong working relationships with its stakeholders? Do you want to share in the pride associated with working for the NHS?



We're looking to recruit a Procurement Specialist to join our Sourcing Team to provide a customer centric service to drive the sourcing of

value for money products and services to support the delivery of high quality clinical care to our patients. Roles could be in clinical, non clinical or capital & infrastructure teams.



This is an exciting time to join SFT, a service that is leading the way in procurement collaboration across the region and is recognise nationally by it's peers as an award winning leader in collaboration.



We are keen to develop the service and most importantly our people, we believe that our staff should be encouraged to develop, grow and embrace our values which will enable us to embrace innovation, deliver excellence and value within our procurement activities and strive to become a world class procurement function of the future.



Your primary role will be to work within the Sourcing Team, sourcing vast range of clinical and non clinical products and services or capital and

infrastructure with an addressable spend value across the BSW ICS of circa 153m.



The role promotes collaborative working across the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire area working with numerous stakeholders and colleagues to

positively impact patient care.



The successful candidates will have the flexibility to be based at either the Royal United Hospitals in Bath, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust or Great

Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon.



We need you to be a self-starter, tenacious and adaptable with excellent relationship management skills such that you can champion the Procurement Vision whilst delivering the aims of the numerous divisions you will be working with. You need to have a willingness to learn, be resilient and able to thrive in an ever changing, often demanding environment, embracing a team approach to success.



Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.



We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.



We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.



Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk



Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.