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Pharmacy Purchasing
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (9am until 5pm (Part time also considered))
Job ref
164-7613178-VC
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queens Medical Centre
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/12/2025 23:59

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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

Band 3

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.     

Working for our organisation

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!

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Level 3 in business administration, purchasing or equivalent, or by demonstration of experience, knowledge and skills at this level relevant to these qualifications
  • A minimum of 4 GCSE’s or equivalent at grades A-C including English and Maths

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of financial systems and processes, including processing financial transactions, such as invoices and orders
  • Good level of knowledge and experience of IT software, in particular strong Excel spreadsheet skills
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of purchasing and the processes involved
  • Experience in a high volume, fast-moving business environment

Communication skills

Essential criteria
  • Proven verbal and written communication skills
  • Able to work both proactively using own initiative and as an effective and flexible member of a team
Desirable criteria
  • Able to communicate effectively with both internal and external, financial and non-financial staff

Analytical and Judgement skill

Essential criteria
  • Numerate and able to analyse and present data and take appropriate actions
  • Able to handle sensitive information confidentially

Organisation skills

Essential criteria
  • Good organisational skills; able to prioritise and deliver accurate results to deadlines under pressure

Physical skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to achieve both speed and high levels of accuracy when undertaking financial data tasks, whilst experiencing interruptions
  • Able to use a keyboard for a large part of the day

Other

Essential criteria
  • Conscientious, reliable, self-motivated, mature outlook, results-orientated
  • Adaptable and flexible
  • Commitment to continuous improvement of customer-focused services

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Care Leaver CovenantNHS Rainbow badgeCareLeaver Covenantadded for NUH

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jessica Thacker
Job title
Advanced Technician - Procurement and Purchasing
Email address
[email protected]
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