Associate Regional Pharmacy Procurement Specialist - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

2 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 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.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be.

Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress

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.