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.
Main duties of the job
Your primary responsibility as the Senior Procurement Advisor role is to proactively contribute to delivery of SCW's annual procurement workplan for clinical commissioners (for example Integrated Care Boards and NHS England), through both directly advising on and managing procurement projects for healthcare-related services and other services on their behalf. The Senior Procurement Advisor will also lead on providing project and systems support to other members of the Procurement team on more complex projects.
Key Responsibilities include:
Either leading, or supporting other Procurement leads support Commissioners through an agreed procurement strategy to achieve compliance with procurement governance and customer Standing Financial Instructions, depending on project complexity.
Managing systems and liaising with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to ensure that procurement documents, processes and portals reflect clear arrangements and information, and run smoothly. Researching and analysing the market prior to any tendering exercise, in order to determine the key providers and identify any new or potential bidders and to encourage full competition wherever possible.
About us
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.
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Education
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of practical experience relevant to the role
- Foundation course in PRINCE2 project management (or equivalent)
- Working towards formal CIPS membership or level 4 NVQ in procurement or willing to study towards
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of project management and information analysis
- Experience of working in a comparable environment
- Experience of working in a customer focused environment
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience of developing and managing project plans to guide customers, project teams and key stakeholders
- Skills for communicating complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/ written communication skills
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters; Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to work without supervision and on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workload to changing and often tight deadlines
- Excellent customer service skills
- Professional, calm and efficient manner
- Skills for analysing and manipulating information.
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to re-prioritise
- The ability to communicate on behalf of more senior colleagues on a wide range of issues relating to clinical procurement services, including responding to correspondence and representation at meetings.
- Ability to offer excellent customer service; attention to detail and understanding of the customer's requirements to create effective working relationships with customers and work effectively as part of both a Procurement team and wider commissioning project teams.
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
Address
Procurement - ICB
Bristol
BS1 6AG