Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Procurement Specialist Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7354332JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Procurement Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
As part of the central Procurement Service and reporting into the Head of Operations, the Clinical Procurement Specialist Nurse will be responsible for the delivery of a number of procurement activities across the Trust, Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management and Northumbria Primary Care.
The successful applicant(s) will demonstrate an ability to draw on a strong basis of clinical experience, a set of clinically focused procurement skills, commercial business acumen and specific experience in the delivery of clinical driven procurement projects and processes, developed over a number of years working in the public sector.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of our centralised Procurement Service, this role will focus on the delivery of a wide portfolio of clinically focused procurement requirements, including projects of both a capital & revenue nature, with value-based approach to benefits realisation. The role will also act as a key enabler and support coordinated & enhanced delivery of both clinical and corporate objectives.
We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate experience in undertaking clinically beneficial public sector procurement projects and delivering commercial benefits using a range of appropriate procurement processes. In addition, the ability to lead project specific engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, including a broad range of clinical colleagues and teams, and the ability to manage individual workload and priorities.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will have a line management relationship into the Head of Operations and onward to the Procurement Leadership Team. Further details of duties and responsibilities of the role are included within the attached Job description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience. Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level
- Evidence of significant post registration experience including substantial experience in a specialist senior role
- Detailed knowledge of current best practice government initiatives and legislation in specialised area.
- Evidence of highly specialist clinical skills and knowledge.
- Experience and working understanding of audit procedures.
- Experience of organising a project team and supporting less experienced staff during the project
Desirable criteria
- Extensive post registration experience at an advanced level.
- Extensive postgraduate training relevant to specialist area.
- Experience of working in a procurement environment
- Knowledge and preferably experience of Public Sector Procurement Regulations
- Knowledge and preferably experience of formal competitive tendering and bid evaluation
- Knowledge and preferably experience of catalogue and inventory management process and product implementation
- Experience in a variety of clinical specialties
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed skills in working as part of a team, sharing outcomes and leading decision-making.
Desirable criteria
- In depth knowledge of clinical procedures
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as a lead specialist with freedom to develop the specialist area and extend the boundaries and the scope of the service, seeking guidance as necessary.
- Show evidence of professional development and be keen to further develop role and skills.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered or Health Professionals Council registered.
- Registered Nurse or Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Degree in Nursing or relevant experience
- Post Graduate training relevant to specialist area
- To have gained, or commit to work towards full Membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS)
- Registered Mentor
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of procurement across the range of work procedures and practices underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience
Desirable criteria
- Practice placement qualification
- Active Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply
Other
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elaine Graham
- Job title
- Head of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07858815711
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