Head of Clinical Category - United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

Description

Head of Clinical Category will work within a fast paced team working on complex tenders and leading a team to deliver category plans and savings. It is an exciting opportunity for a highly literate and public procurement-competent individual to support the delivery of a significant programme of change within the Clinical Category.

You will relish the opportunity to assist in the delivery of Frimley Health's strategic category management programme, be responsible for the delivery of a specific strategic sourcing programme and ambitious cost improvement programme at our 3 main hospital sites.

Please note this post will be based at Archipelago Offices in Frimley however, there will be requirements to work from other sites as needed (Wexham or Heatherwood).

The role requires weekly on site attendance to the office and a mix of hybrid working is available.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for managing a team of category managers and will be required to run and support large procurement projects and clinical trials in conjunction with our clinical and non-clinical departments. You will work to identify and manage procurements that deliver savings whilst ensuring a high level of patient care. You'll also use your up-to-date knowledge to provide day to day information and advice on procurement processes, protocols and policy to key end users within the Trust as well as providing an invaluable contribution to the project team meetings on an on-going basis.

The role offers real potential to put your, managerial, purchasing and project management expertise and experience into practice and gain the satisfaction of knowing that you have made a significant contribution towards the provision of high-quality care to our patients.

Working for our organisation

There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core 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.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Some of the main job responsibilities are:

• Daily management of clinical category team
• Delivery of strategic procurement initiatives
• Efficient and effective delivery of procurement services
• Maximise value for money opportunities through process improvement and total cost of ownership modelling
• Develop, manage and report on an agreed work and savings plans
• Comply with all relevant procurement legislation
• Act as the subject matter expert within category, leading by example
• Solve complex problems

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details, if you have any queries regarding any part of this position please contact us.

Person specification Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level
• Member of CIPS
• Relevant CPD in the last 24 months
• Completed Full MCIPS
• CIPS level 4 or 5 Diploma

Experience

• Significant category management experience in Clinical categories
• 3 years experience direct line management
• Demonstrable experience of running high value and complex public sector procurement processes
• Significant experience working with senior staff and clinicians
• Evidence of savings and efficiencies achieved
• Knowledge of NHS T&C's
• Knowledge of contract law
• Experience of applying principles of change management

Skills & Knowledge

• Evidence of effective management of multiple projects
• Ability to effectively communicate- face to face, presentations and documented communications
• Evidence of ability to manage own time and self motivate
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex information and issues
• Evidence of problem management and resolution
• Working knowledge of Bravo and Atamis
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels
• Ability to lead a team and offer advice effectively

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

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