Closing Date: 18.08.26
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 19.08.26
Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 08.09.26
(Due to current Home Office Guidelines, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is unable to provide sponsorship for this role).
Are you a detail ‑ driven Buyer who thrives on delivering value for money in a fast ‑ paced healthcare environment?
Join Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Buyer and play a vital role in ensuring our clinical and non ‑ clinical teams have the supplies and services they need to deliver outstanding patient care.
Working closely with senior procurement colleagues, you’ll manage day ‑ to ‑ day purchasing activity, support stakeholders across the Trust, and help drive compliance, efficiency and cost savings - all while developing your skills within a supportive, forward ‑ thinking procurement team. If you enjoy problem ‑ solving, building strong relationships and making a real difference behind the scenes, this is your opportunity to be part of positive change across the NHS.
Ensure that the day-to-day processing of orders occurs in a timely fashion demonstrating value for money.
Provide advice and support on placing requisitions. Ensuring Stakeholders have the knowledge in the use of the i-proc system (Oracle) effectively and how invoice notifications work and what is required to resolve them.
To support the Clinical and Non-clinical teams in the provision of all procurement and contracting activities and to support the delivery of the departmental work plan.
Supports line management by reliably prioritising and managing own work.
Support the organisation in obtaining best value in sourcing supplies and services.
Support the Senior Procurement team in ensuring compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations, Standing Financial Instructions, rules, policies, and procedures.
To support the Clinical and Non-clinical teams to ensure that all stakeholders are engaged in the procurement processes.
Flagging any potential non-contractual or non-catalogue items that could be potentially procured more efficiently via the catalogue spend to Senior Procurement Managers.
To maintain the highest possible standard of integrity in all relationships with all internal customers, outside organisations, and suppliers.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information before applying for this role.
