Technical Procurement Specialist

Job summary

A very exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technical Procurement Specialist to join us to support our ambitious plans for our Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS sharing of digital records.

HWE ICB have agreed an ICS wide transformation project to support system recovery through patient centred care, interoperability and efficient delivery of care which will benefits all providers across multiple pathways. Our plan is to procure a digital platform this financial period, which will share personalised care plans for our population and beyond into neighbouring ICS' including into London. The initial priority is the implementation of digital advance care plans for our frail and end of life patients and then expand to other cohorts.

As the Technical Procurement Specialist for the Hertfordshire and West Essex (HWE) ICS, you will continue to support the ICS Digital Transformation team to bring together information from the records held by the different health and social care organisations that our population receive care from. This allows health and care professionals to access a real-time summary of key information, safely and securely as they deliver care to our population.

Fixed term or secondment opportunity until 31/03/2025 with possible extension. Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations and proactively seek out opportunities for digital transformation
• Maintain a comprehensive register of systems in place and working with system partners to ensure our collective infrastructure remains current and within suppliers' support periods
• Analysis of MOSCOW requirements to ensure and demonstrate solutions meet key requirements
• Writing detailed design specifications in support of the programme solutions
• Exchanging specialist information with colleagues from similar and other disciplines including providing key specialist advice
• Chairing system wide meetings for procurement activity in line with the timescales outlines in the procurement programme plan and delegating actions where required. Meetings will include expertise not limited to the centralised procurement team, clinical, operational, IT and Digital
• The post is responsible for providing and professional procurement expertise and owning all procurement activity end to end Digital Directorate across the HWE Integrated Care System (ICS)
• The post holder will define the requirements of the digital expectations for procurement processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues and implement best practice, documenting as they are agreed and oversee the overall delivery

About us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.6 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It's an exciting time for us and we're looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.