Associate Regional Pharmacy Procurement Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service is recruiting in parallel 5 enthusiastic and dynamic pharmacy professionals to join the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) Procurement team.

These new posts will become Associate Regional Pharmacy Procurement Specialists working to the existing Regional Pharmacy Procurement Specialists.

The 5 posts will be hosted in the following organisations Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

The post-holder will be working with the Regional Pharmacy Procurement Specialists (RPPSS) to ensure operational delivery of our service against the SPS National Service Specification.

You will work very closely with the RPPSs alongside the Commercial Medicines Unit, assisting in the operationalisation and delivery or an optimised supply chain across England.

The post holder is expected to provide expert operational leadership for pharmacy procurement services within their designated NHS England region, managing medicines and medicine related services primarily to the hospital sector of the NHS.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with colleagues across the other functions within SPS.

The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS to develop best practice systems of work-related to buying, making and using medicines.

The service provides leadership, instructive and informative specialist input and operational support to the sourcing, supply and use of medicines across the system.

Within the SPS Procurement team, we focus on supporting medicines optimisation and patient care through supporting the national agenda for the procurement of medicines for the NHS, supporting the NHS with the implementation and monitoring of uptake of national contracts for medicines, and supporting supply chain management at a national, regional, and Trust level.

Please see attached job description for more information on the main responsibilities and person specification.