Contracts Officer

Job summary

Are you ready for a fulfilling journey?

Join our cross-site Contract Management team as a Contracts Officer. This role offers a chance to create and advance your career uniquely.

Why This Role Stands Out:

Innovative Opportunity: Define this role within our organization, adapting it to your strengths and aspirations.

Diverse Responsibilities: Engage in a wide range of contracts across various departments and sites, embracing daily fresh challenges

Tailored Training: Invest in your growth with job-specific training, enhancing skills while working

Impact on Healthcare: Ensure compliant contracts, crucial for our healthcare facilities and patient well-being

We seek a versatile, excellence-driven candidate with:

Adaptability: Flexible, proactive mindset for overcoming challenges.

Communication Skills: Collaborate effectively with diverse teams and articulate contractor expectations

Problem-Solving: Expertise in using feedback, data, and industry standards for innovative solutions

Independence: Develop standard operating procedures for consistency and efficiency.

Team Player: Integral support for the team, covering administration duties during leave.

This is more than a job; it's an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in healthcare while shaping your career. Join a team valuing innovation, adaptability, and personal growth - apply now to drive our success.

Main duties of the job

As Contracts Officer, you will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of maintenance contracts for both Estates and Facilities management responsibilities will encompass a wide array of crucial tasks:

Contract Scope: Leading maintenance contracts, specifically focusing on Estates and Facilities management, ensuring they align with the organisation's policies, public sector regulations, and best practices.

Compliance: Your role will involve upholding various compliance standards, including financial compliance, NHS regulations, public procurement law, and service delivery compliance

SLA's: You will be responsible for producing service level agreements. These documents will adhere to standardised formats developed through the implementation of standard operating procedures

Performance Metrics: Evaluation of contracts will be based on metrics tailored to each tender and service. You will play a key role in setting these metrics to ensure efficient and effective service delivery

Procurement Knowledge: A solid foundation in procurement knowledge is essential, either through qualifications or demonstrated experience. You will provide guidance to service leads, helping them shape service specifications for evaluation and delivery

In this multifaceted role, you will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on our organisation's compliance, governance, and regulatory processes, all while contributing to the delivery of safe and high-quality care to our patients

About us

Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

YTHFM are currently funding level 1 membership of a Tailored Healthcare Cash Plan for all substantive Band 2 and 3 staff, on a trial basis and as a gesture of goodwill. This provides employees with access to a range of benefits, including refunding the costs of optical and dental services, physiotherapy and wellbeing treatments, up to defined limits. This does not form part of our terms and conditions of employment and could be withdrawn at any time. We also offer discounted membership of Westfield Health's standard Plan for staff on bank contracts or employed in Band 4 or above.