Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust currently has an opportunity for a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer.

Do you have a solid background in purchasing or financial processing? Are you eager to develop your experience in a busy team which underpins vital patient services? Working within a small team at QMC campus you will be responsible for ordering medicines for both QMC and City campus.

Reporting to the Pharmacy Purchasing Manager, your work in the Pharmacy Purchasing Team will include:-

Placing daily orders for medicines and other pharmaceutical items used across the Trust

Ensuring medicines pricing is accurate, and resolving pricing and supplier queries

Liaising with clinical colleagues to ensure uninterrupted product supply

Maintaining and reconciling systems and data relating to areas such as medical gas supplies across the Trust

Your Qualifications

You need to be highly competent in purchasing or financial processing tasks, with a meticulous eye for detail, and able to turn round large volumes of work accurately to tight deadlines. Experience of working proactively in a busy environment is ideal.

The Pharmacy purchasing function sits within the wider Pharmacy Medicines Finance Team. We are a friendly, hard-working team who are an important part of the Hospital Pharmacy department. So if you are keen to develop your career in a varied and fast-moving environment, we want to hear from you.

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Smalley Job title: Pharmacy Purchasing Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01159781090

Rebecca Smalley , Pharmacy Purchasing Manager, on 0115 9781090 (or email [email protected]) to discuss further.