About this role
Job summary
Contributes to the delivery of outstanding patient care:The main purpose of the post is to provide procurement support across the Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and any other stakeholder organisations.This role will be to assist the Procurement Team in the day to day effective operation of the service. Tasks include updating and maintaining procurement systems including the Procurement Catalogues, Unit 4 (Agresso) integration, Contracts Database and Stock Management systems.Liaising with the Procurement Team, Customers and Suppliers around issues and queries to ensure an effective and cost efficient service is delivered, ensuring a first class customer service is maintained at all times.This is a demanding role within Procurement which requires accuracy, working to tight deadlines and compliance to policies and procedures to ensure that Key Performance metrics and targets are met at all times.Promote the role and raise awareness of the department, offering advice and guidance to departments in subject areas relevant to this post.
Ensure commitment towards quality standards and improving the department's key performance metrics including Model Hospital and Lord Carter metrics.
Maintain awareness of the relevance of good governance or similar control standards
Main duties of the job
Managing queries
Supporting the buying team
Catalogue management
Supplier and stakeholder liaison
Communicating with suppliers
Low value sourcing of products and services
Record keeping
Preparing KPI data
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Please see below link for the DSFS website.
DSFS - Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Limited | DSFS
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Job description Job responsibilities
For details of this exciting role, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge Essential
Planning and organising: Demonstrates an ability to prioritise own workload against competing demands and time pressures Ability to work in a logical, organised and efficient manner Ability to work under pressure within clearly defined objectives and timetables Ability to work individually or as part of a team Analytical and Judgement: Manipulate data obtained from several data sources in order to inform decision making Ability to move data between systems or produce data for inclusion into electronic systems Communication and relationships: Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents Ability to liaise and interact with staff at all levels within a multi-disciplinary environment Training and Education: Provides advice and coaching to other professionals in relation to procurement systems Knowledge of procurement principles acquired through training and/or experience
Desirable
Advanced keyboard skills
Qualifications and Training Essential
4 GCSE's or equivalent, including Maths and English.
Desirable
ECDL or equivalent qualification.
Experience Essential
IT literate with demonstrable experience working with a number of IT systems. Database data entry Advanced Excel user - data sorts, lookups, compare, pivot tables
Desirable
Unit 4 (Agresso) use or equivalent E-Procurement System experience Stock management knowledge
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 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Top Road, Calow
Chesterfield
S44 5BL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)