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Contract Executive
This post is a 15 Month Fixed Term / Secondment position
About the Organisation:
National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland providing invaluable support and advice at a strategic and operational level. NSS supports customers to deliver their services more efficiently and effectively and we offer shared services on a national scale using best-in-class systems and standards. Our priority is always the same – to improve the health and well-being of the people of Scotland. We do this by working in partnership with colleagues across Health and Social Care to deliver fit for purpose solutions and systems, delivering high quality services that help our stakeholders to free up resources so they can be re-invested into essential services.
The Post:
The Contract Management Team (CMT) provide expert advice and services across the National Health Service in Scotland and is part of the Digital and Security SBU.
The role of the Digital and Security SBU is to support the NHS Scotland national digital agenda through the effective delivery of digital products and specialist services that will enable clinical process and efficiency improvements across Scotland. This includes the delivery of digital services, systems, data and contracts which enable cross-Board / boundary integration, workflow, information sharing, cost efficiency realisation and collaboration.
The CMT is the principal point of contact between NHS Scotland and the Suppliers of a range of National IT Service contracts, which embrace business and clinical service needs at both national and local levels.
The Candidate:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Contract Executive to provide contract and administrative support related to the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and radiology contracts. This involves a number of suppliers, managed by NSS on behalf of NHS Scotland. PACS is a large-scale change programme which sets out to deliver digital technologies to support diagnostic services across Scotland, as well as comprehensive sharing of the radiological image and its report.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a diverse and dynamic team, during an exciting time of change and opportunity within the national PACS service. There are significant learning and development opportunities open to the candidate appointed to this role.
We are seeking to appoint a proactive and enthusiastic individual, who can demonstrate competence and experience in office administration, taking the initiative, time management and who is an excellent communicator. In addition, the ideal candidate will exhibit good interpersonal skills and be able to deal with people at a number of levels of the organisation.
Location and Working Pattern:
Gyle Square, Edinburgh or Meridian Court, Glasgow - please note, we will move from our Meridian Court premises in summer 2023, new location still to be confirmed.
Work pattern - Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits
Further information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Karen Triner on 07572 420886 or Kenny Scott on 07736 457200.
Closing date for completed applications is 27 March 2023.
Interviews for this post are likely to take place on 11 or 12 April 2023.
Further information on NSS is available from: www.nhsnss.org
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies