Procurement Specialist / Senior Procurement Specialist

We are seeking suitable candidates to join our Procurement & Supply Chain function. These four roles provide a supportive and professional procurement service to the Clinical Boards and Corporate Departments across the Trust, supporting the delivery of the best patient. The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spends over £750 million annually on goods, works, and services with third-party suppliers. Our Procurement & Supply Chain teams manage a diverse work programme, ensuring compliant, timely, and effective delivery of procurement activities valued at £12,500 and above. Whether you are looking to start your procurement career, looking for a career change, or seeking your next challenge as a procurement professional, a career in NHS procurement might be for you if you find the following questions exciting and appealing: Are you looking for a career where you will be supported in your professional development? Are you looking for an opportunity to get involved in a huge variety or projects, from corporate procurement all the way through to cutting edge IT, Robotics and Estates projects? Do you want a career that supports the NHS to deliver outstanding care to our patients? Is career progression important to you? Do you have strong interpersonal and analytical skills? Can you use your communication skills to influence and manage a variety of stakeholders? + Interview Date Wednesday 29 January 2025 + 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week NO AGENCIES PLEASE, These roles have been specifically created as progression or career grades, enabling the Trust to develop our in-house talent by supporting the successful candidates through their professional development and CIPS qualifications. Individual work programmes and development plans will be based on experience, initially post holders will work on lower-risk contracts, flexibly supporting the wider work Programme across various categories and assisting the Procurement Managers on larger more complex projects. Post holders will be supported to achieve through a competency framework of key skills whilst progressing through the CIPS Professional qualifications. The successful candidates must possess excellent communication, IT, and writing skills, along with either working knowledge or an understanding of relevant procurement legislation and associated government objectives. Post holders will have a firm understanding of the organisations values and consistently demonstrates positive behaviours in line with those values; seeks and responds to constructive feedback; acknowledges and learns from own mistakes; reflects on own behaviour and reviews performance; and learns from others and is open to new ideas. This role offers continuous development and career progression opportunities within a professional public sector procurement team. Candidates must demonstrate procurement experience and/or transferable skills.Working for our organisation Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites. Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'. For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, + The post holder will be fully conversant with departmental objectives, and always be mindful of the Trust's Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instruction. + The post holder will be an integral part of the Procurement Team. Upholding our values and further developing the department in line with its strategic goals, whilst ensuring always an effective and efficient service is provided to end users. + The monitoring and development of KPI performance will be an ongoing part of the role as will the implementation of measures that ensure planned performance improvement. + Provide Trust representation supporting service developments in a variety of meetings, communication and clear thinking are essential qualities. The ability to interpret and transpose the information to trust staff at varying levels of seniority will also be a necessary to ensure conformity to best practice methods. + Work cross-functionally with other departments of our Procurement Function. + The post holder will need to have a thorough understanding of Electronic Procurement and Financial systems. + Have a shared responsibility for proactively and consistently ensuring that perceived performance problems are clearly identified using system information, that procedures are implemented in the relevant areas to ensure performance is developed in line with best practice methods. + The post holder will report directly to a Procurement Manager and will support them and the Head of Procurement in the procurement lifecycle processes including the tendering of bespoke contracts for goods and services. + The post holder will work closely with the Directorates Procurement team, including Clinical and Non-Clinical stakeholder engagement, in the provision of data to support procurement decisions. + The post holder will need to establish good working relationships with the procurement team, the purchasing team, the systems support team, Inventory management and the finance directorate. Band 6 + The Senior Procurement Specialist is part of the Supplies and Procurement team and is the procurement lead for the successful delivery of projects within the aligned category/business area. + The post holder will provide expert advice concerning successful contracting within public procurement regulations and the Trust's internal regulations and policies. + Responsible for the tendering of bespoke contracts for goods, services and works, including research, preparation, issue, scheduling, evaluation, reporting on tenders and award and the management of contracts. + As the senior procurement specialist, the post holder will lead the establishment and/or enhancement of robust relationships within the aligned business area and wider Trust, to drive productive collaboration between the stakeholders and the procurement function in the effective forward planning of procurement / projects requirements. + Supports the development and implementing of discrete service policies which impact across the Trust. + Responsible for ensuring that the Trust utilises where appropriate, national contracts established by NHS Supply Chain, Crown Commercial Services, the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative or other public sector collaborative procurement organisations where such arrangements provide benefit to the Trust; facilitating communication between the Trust's internal customers of goods / services covered by such contracts and those formulating them. This role has a wide pay band because we will consider appointing at both entry level, through to experienced professionals. £29,970 - £44,962 (progression rules apply). As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed. Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month's pay. Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. We're in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.