Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the UK is looking for a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer to join their Medicines Purchasing team. This role involves placing daily orders for medicines, ensuring accurate pricing, and collaborating with clinical staff to maintain an uninterrupted supply chain. Suitable candidates should have a strong background in purchasing or financial processing, attention to detail, and the ability to manage high volumes of work. Join a supportive team dedicated to delivering quality healthcare and enjoy numerous professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Personal development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in purchasing or financial processing is essential.
• Ability to handle large volumes of work accurately.
• Experience working proactively in busy environments.

Responsibilities

• Place daily orders for medicines and pharmaceutical items.
• Ensure medicines pricing accuracy and resolve queries.
• Liaise with clinical colleagues for uninterrupted supply.
• Maintain and reconcile systems regarding medical supplies.

Skills

Purchasing knowledge

Financial processing

Attention to detail

Ability to work under tight deadlines

Job description

Opportunity

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is currently has an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer to work within our Medicines Purchasing team.

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!