Job summary
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills supporting interesting and complex projects within the modern NHS commissioning environment and helping to make improvements to patient services.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Main duties of the job
South, Central and West (SCW) is an NHS organisation providing support and transformation services to health and care systems, predominantly NHS England and Integrated Care Boards.
Our award-winning procurement team of c.100 people has an interesting and diverse project portfolio, ranging from primary care services or prison healthcare through to immunisations programmes, patient transport services, digital solutions for health and a whole range of other fields, such as consultancy and professional services. Due to wide-ranging expansion of our work portfolio and customer base, we are recruiting to a number of roles in the team.
About us
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
SCW is flexible in terms of your working base, within our SCW office network, including homeworking options as part of working patterns. As part of your role, you will be expected, from time to time, to travel to a range of SCW and customer sites, predominantly within the South of England.
For further information about the team and our work, please visit our procurement team recruitment page. If you'd like to hear more about what we do and the exciting plans we have for the future, then please get in touch via the contact details on the page.
Website: Procurement careers - NHS SCW Support and Transformation for Health and Care (scwcsu.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Your primary responsibility will be to manage smaller scale or less complex projects that support our customer recommissioning processes. Projects may be discrete and focus on a particular phase of a customers recommissioning plan, for example, the pre-procurement, procurement or mobilisation phase. The procurement phase will include provider selection on behalf of our customers for healthcare and clinical-related services.
Supporting our teams procurement specialists with procurement and provider selection when required, youll possess a professional procurement and/or project management qualification(s), or be working towards - or willing to work towards - attaining this.
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in procurement
- Formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement or studying towards/willing to study towards
Desirable
- Foundation course in PRINCE2 project management
- Evidence of continued professional development
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Knowledge of project management principles, tools and techniques
Desirable
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it
- Experience of working within the public sector and a working knowledge of procurement regulations i.e., Provider Selection Regime 2023, Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Public Procurement regulations, Equality Act 2010, and Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
- Knowledge and experience of using an e-Procurement system
- Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring of budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of coordinating procurement projects/project teams in complex and challenging environments
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with stakeholders/customers on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups/customers
- Ability to analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Executive level
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
- Demonstrable strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
- Demonstrable capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Evidence of success in efficient and effective project management ensuring delivery within financial targets
- Excellent customer service skills; an ability to maintain confidentiality and trust: used to working in a busy environment; adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Desirable
- Market management skills - ability to develop approaches to analyse the market and to encourage a range of organisations to bid for services
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
Address
Bristol
Bristol
BS1 6AG