Job summary
Employer heading
Supply Chain Supervisor
NHS AfC: Band 4
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.Ìý
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 4 Supply chain supervisor within the Procurement service. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and innovative individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships across a multi-professional team and be able to adapt to an evolving service in order to ensure the continuous delivery of high quality patient care.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a Supply Chain supervisor within the Procurement Shared service. The appointment to this post will be based at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS.ÌýÌý
The role will be responsible for the implementation of Procurement CIPS as well as leading the Supply Chain team on a day to day basis across two sites. You will be responsible to build up key relations ship with internal and external teams including end users/Department, Finance and GMs
The successful candidate must be able to prioritise competing demands for the service, be able to learn quickly to understand the complexity of the service.
Experience in Supply Chain is required. Management experience is also required
If you believe you have the skills and enthusiasm to join and help lead our services, we would love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
The Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Procurement Shared Service provides a specialist support for several NHS trusts within London including Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital sites and the Evelina Children’s Hospital as well as Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.
These day-to-day services will be managed in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints. The post holder will be responsible for the management of teams over two hospital sites, service delivery and supports to clinical departments
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ìýkey operational role that will be the face of the service, providing a world class inventory stock management system. This role will support the supply chain manager in the delivery of a highly effective supply chain service.Ìý
The post holder will be responsible for the management of a service team and will be responsible for dealing with all day to day operational issues. They will also ensure that processes and policies are adhered to and targets areÌý
monitored and achieved.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and knowledge of managing inventory management systems and implementing systems within a fast moving business environment
- Experience of setting objectives, carrying out staff appraisals, identifying training needs.
- Experience of report preparation and recommendation methodology
- Developed customer care communication skills
- Experience of organisational management in a large organisation
- Experience of performance management including disciplinary policies
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3
- Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), or equivalent training and experience.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and written communication skills
- Experience of staff rota management in a large organisation
- An experienced problem solver
- Experience of working with systems based data for interrogation purposes
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Duffin
- Job title
- Supply Chain Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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