To provide daily support to the Purchasing Manager in the operational running of the purchasing department. This includes process.....
To provide daily support to the Purchasing Manager in the operational running of the purchasing department. This includes processing outstanding orders from suppliers, communicating accurate information on supply problems, investigating stock discrepancies, co-ordinating drug recalls and responding to urgent ad-hoc requests for medications from the pharmacy team.
• To ensure adequate supplies of drugs and non-drugs are available to meet the needs of the service.
• To manage the team of purchasing and invoicing assistants, including writing rotas, being actively involved in recruitment and selection, appraisals and reviewing annual leave requests.
• To process outstanding orders from our suppliers and provide accurate information to our users on manufacturing/supply problems.
• To investigate and correct any stock discrepancies.
• To co-ordinate and process drug recalls.
• To report minor product defects.
• To be involved in the development and implementation of E-Procurement platform(s) for contract, ordering and invoicing purposes.
• To respond to urgent requests on ad-hoc basis.
• To authorise chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition orders on-line.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Outline of main duties listed above. If you are interested in this vacancy please consult the main Job Description and Person Specification document for full details.
Should you have any further questions, feel free to take contact.
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Jul 2024
