Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2059
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hosptial
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacy Medicines Purchasing Officer
Band 5
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We invite you to join our team in the dynamic role of a Lead Pharmacy Medicines Purchasing Officer. If you have a passion for connecting the dots within our Pharmacy team, then this opportunity might just be the perfect fit for you.
The purpose of this post is to work in the pharmacy purchasing office. The team consists of administration staff working alongside pharmacy technicians to ensure the timely and cost effective purchasing of medicines for all inpatient pharmacies across the four sites at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The post holder is responsible managing the people, processes and performance of the team, as well as managing the planning and prioritisation of work.
Main duties of the job
- To manage the day-to-day running of the purchasing office on the Hammersmith Hospital site, ensuring staff purchase medicines in line with Trust procedures.
- To manage the day-to-day activities of the purchasing office, with support from the Lead Pharmacy Technician, Purchasing when necessary.
- To deputise for Lead Pharmacy Technician, Purchasing in her absence.
- To ensure the team take appropriate action where items are out of stock.
- To ensure contracts, price agreements and consortium buying deals are adhered to and that off contract purchases are approved appropriately.
- To ensure the team carry out the cost effective procurement of non-contract lines.
- To ensure that all price discrepancies are investigated and dealt with appropriately and in a timely manner. Ensuring pricing issues are communicated to the Lead Pharmacy Technician, Purchasing when necessary.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of professional purchasing principles acquired through degree or Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), or equivalent training and experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of purchasing in a Hospital / Pharmacy setting.
- Experience of identifying service improvements and supporting change.
- Staff management including objective setting and appraisal, performance review & people development.
- Evidence of using computerised ordering/stock management systems, e.g. CMM.
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to use Word and Excel and to have experience of setting up and interrogating databases.
- Understanding of providing excellent customer service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Dore
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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