Job summary
A fantastic opportunity to work in a dynamic Clinical Engineering Department to provide procurement support in purchasing medical equipment and service contracts for medical devices.
Note: This vacancy will have a start date after 01/07/2025
Main duties of the job
To be part of a Clinical Engineering team seeking to ensure that new and existing areas of expenditure are submitted to appropriate procurement processes to deliver cash releasing savings opportunities to the trust's directorates.
To undertake projects covering both medical and non-medical commodity areas, achieving the best possible value for money for the Trust(s).
About us
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience post-graduate analytical/statistical/ medical technology techniques and procedures, acquired through degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience.
Desirable
- Professional membership of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in a Contracts environment.
- Experience of working on projects with high volumes of data / multi sites.
- Experience of working within a medical devices management area.
- Experience of market testing of suppliers and self-delivery.
Desirable
- Some experience of operational service delivery, particularly in a Healthcare environment would be beneficial and desirable.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent analytic, problem solving and process mapping skills.
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office.
- Developing cost models to formulate cost assumptions and actuals into investment cases for individual contracts with support of finance
- Ability to motivate and control large multi skilled contract teams.
- Have specialised technical knowledge in specified speciality.
- Ability to deliver high standards of front of house diplomacy and service.
- Work unsupervised and under pressure in order to meet deadlines
- Innovative problem-solving ability
- Ability to work on various IT systems.
- Ability to effectively participate in multiple maintenance contracts procurement, ensuring best value and service.
Desirable
- Skills in service development.
- Knowledge in managing in a healthcare environment.
- Ability to produce technical reports.
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Strong analyst who can trouble shoot and make independent decisions
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, particularly with key Stakeholders.
- Highly self-organised.
- Excellent time management
- IT literate including Excel and Access
- Excellent written and verbal communications.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and experience post-graduate analytical/statistical/ medical technology techniques and procedures, acquired through degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience.
Desirable
- Professional membership of a relevant professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in a Contracts environment.
- Experience of working on projects with high volumes of data / multi sites.
- Experience of working within a medical devices management area.
- Experience of market testing of suppliers and self-delivery.
Desirable
- Some experience of operational service delivery, particularly in a Healthcare environment would be beneficial and desirable.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent analytic, problem solving and process mapping skills.
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office.
- Developing cost models to formulate cost assumptions and actuals into investment cases for individual contracts with support of finance
- Ability to motivate and control large multi skilled contract teams.
- Have specialised technical knowledge in specified speciality.
- Ability to deliver high standards of front of house diplomacy and service.
- Work unsupervised and under pressure in order to meet deadlines
- Innovative problem-solving ability
- Ability to work on various IT systems.
- Ability to effectively participate in multiple maintenance contracts procurement, ensuring best value and service.
Desirable
- Skills in service development.
- Knowledge in managing in a healthcare environment.
- Ability to produce technical reports.
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Strong analyst who can trouble shoot and make independent decisions
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, particularly with key Stakeholders.
- Highly self-organised.
- Excellent time management
- IT literate including Excel and Access
- Excellent written and verbal communications.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
