Pharmacy Purchasing Officer

6 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust currently has an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Purchasing Officer.

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 financial 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.

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

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country. We are a large, complex, person-centred organisation with an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of patient care, research, education and innovation. For more information about the Trust, visit our website

**Some of the benefits of working for our organisation include**:
Flexible working

Opportunities for to be innovative/creative in the workplace

Friendly and supportive work colleagues within the team

Salary sacrifice schemes

Cycle to work and travel

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



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