Clinical Specialist in Daresbury

We have an exciting opportunity to be part of the newly formed clinical team in our diagnostics category. You will be responsible for ensuring the clinical and patient voice is heard in the national procurement setting, writing model service and product specifications, providing specialist clinical knowledge to inform procurement strategies, and supporting NHS Trusts to ensure they are getting best value for money with products and services. This includes assessing and supporting innovation, sharing, and driving best practice.

Main duties of the job:

• Assuring the clinical quality and safety of products and activity within a Category.
• Specialist Clinician or Industry product specialist with significant demonstrable and relevant experience working within the specific category product areas for a significant part of their career.
• Focused category product specialist and subject matter experts with a hands-on and working knowledge of the category products and the clinical care associated with the category.
• Stakeholder management through a clinical engagement process, working across clinical and non-clinical stakeholder functions including regular presentations to teams of specialist clinicians and managing suppliers as part of portfolio activity.
• Influencing uptake and the continuous improvement of the commercial offers by the suppliers through these projects.
• Making recommendations for opportunities with products from across the market which promote standardisation, are clinically sound, and have fiscal responsibility for best use of the budget.
• Chairing supplier NHS product and award meetings/events, ensuring that informed decisions are made which align to the parameters of the national framework agreement.

About us:

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver, and supply healthcare products, services, and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

Job responsibilities:

• Use data from a wide range of sources to analyse key themes and identify possible impacts on the business.
• Comprehensive commercial understanding of the frameworks and market to take line level data and model this as clinical practice.
• Conduct complex analytics to review current clinical practice needs vs future clinical practice needs whilst ensuring that the end users are complying with national initiatives and programmes.
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team.
• Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and to the broader organisation's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
• Ensure the organization is not exposed to undue risks by using risk management systems to achieve specific goals within a designated area of the business.
• Identify risks associated with products and changes in product portfolios to ensure quality is maintained in the interests of the end users and patients.
• Work within a designated product portfolio with responsibility for project delivery, accurate savings delivery, and uptake across NHS Trusts or ICs.
• Deliver defined features, functionality, or outcomes from a designated part of the development engineering programme, selecting the best available approach within established systems.
• Responsible for leading and writing technical specifications for tender/procurement processes, deriving the scope, and supporting supply chain resilience within specific categories for National Framework Agreement solutions.

Person Specification:

We are looking for clinical specialists who are subject matter experts in one or more of the following areas: Radiology - MRI/CT/X-ray/Cardiac/Endoscopy/Pathology/Oncology/Theatres/anaesthetics. A minimum of five years' experience working in a clinical background within a complex healthcare organisation either in a hospital or primary care setting is required. Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders are essential.

We actively encourage applications from individuals seeking part-time or flexible working arrangements and are committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£54,884 a year, with potential to rise to £64,570 over 3 years.