Purchasing and Invoicing Assistant | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to play a vital role with the Pharmacy procurement team?

We have an exciting new opportunity for a committed and motivated person with excellent organisational skills and a high level of accuracy to work within our procurement team.

To process orders and pay invoices for pharmaceuticals and sundries, assist with procurement and supply of drugs handled by the pharmacy department. To provide costing and statistical information for the Pharmacy Department

You must possess good communication skills and be able to work to tight deadlines in this busy and challenging environment. Computer literacy and attention to detail is also important.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

• To participate in the smooth operation of the Trust's Accounts Payable function in accordance with Trust procedures, good creditor payments practice and NHS payments policy.


• To ensure that all invoices and credits are processed efficiently and accurately and are consistent with goods received or returned on the pharmacy computer system.


• To resolve discrepancies as appropriate in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures, referencing contract prices where applicable, using the CMU Contract File as reference.


• To produce, process and authorise invoices, off-contract claims and credits and forward completed paperwork to the Accounts Department in accordance with the suppliers' terms and conditions of payment.


• To contact creditors for invoice queries and suppliers regarding overdue deliveries.