Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a full time, Band 3 pharmacy Procurement/Invoicing officer at Surrey & Sussex Healthcare Trust. The successful candidate will be customer focused and have strong relationship building skills, used both for internal and external stakeholder liaison.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with experience of Purchasing & invoicing in a busy office environment to tight deadlines to join our team and help deliver an efficient and effective pharmacy service that the Trust relies upon to manage the procurement of medicines for patient centred care.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has an interest in a career within purchasing/procurement; the role will facilitate the development of day to day activities such as the raising of purchase orders, goods receipting and processing of invoices as well as internal stakeholder and supplier management.

You will need NVQ Level 3 Business and Administration/Pharmacy Services or Procurement or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Hours of work will be 08.30 – 17.00 Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

 For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.