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Buying Support Officer

On-site in Sutton in Ashfield·Full-time·Added yesterday (last checked 12 Nov)

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Our summary

Salary
£25,272 a year

About £1,810 a month after tax.

Work mode
On-site, Sutton in Ashfield
Contract
Full-time
Closing date
Apply by Thursday 19 November

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Knowledge, understanding and use of Word and Excel packages and other computerised purchasing systems
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work to deadlines.
  • GCSE level or equivalent
  • Use of Word and Excel packages and other computerised purchasing systems
  • Customer service experience
  • Good organisational skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience of working in a busy office environment, working to high standards of accuracy under pressure and meeting deadlines
  • Willingness to undertake relevant training.
  • Standard keyboard skills to ensure speed and accuracy.

Nice to have

  • An understanding of the NHS
  • Knowledge of purchasing procedures and systems
  • An awareness of Health and Safety at Work requirements
  • CIPS / NVQ3 (or equivalent experience)
  • Previous NHS experience
  • Experience within a Purchasing environment within a large organisation
  • Use of e-mail and the Internet

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

£25,272 a year per annum

The role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Buying Support Officer to join our Procurement Team. This role is ideal for a highly organised, customer-focused individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and making a real difference behind the scenes.

If you arehardworking,positive,friendly, andapproachable, and you take pride in delivering a high standard of service that supports patient care, we'd love to hear from you.

Reporting to the Buying Team Manager, you will play a vital role in ensuring goods and services are available to support patient care. You'll be expected to work to tight deadlines, follow strict procedures, and demonstrate initiative and teamwork.

The overriding purpose of this role is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal contribution, excellent customer service and a commitment to continuous improvement. Every purchase matters, and by joining our Procurement Team, you will play a key role in ensuring our clinical teams have the resources they need to deliver outstanding care to our patients.

If you are organised, motivated and passionate about providing an excellent service, we would love to hear from you.

What you'll do

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

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.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Date posted

12 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

About Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Industry
Health and social care

In their own words

About the company & team

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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