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As a vital part of NHS Scotland, NHS National Services Scotland’s mission is to enable and support the delivery of better health and better care, working in partnership. We do this by providing a range of specialised support services that enable NHS Boards to focus their efforts on delivering health improvement and patient care.
Procurement in NHS Scotland covers £2.5 billion of trade spend. The Commercial & Performance Services department carries out a range of customer focused commercial activities for NHS Bodies and the wider Public Sector under a short, long term or ad hoc basis. Support and consultancy is led by members of the team with wide and varied experience in contracting and sourcing services, programme management and project management services
Project and Programme Management
Management and effective delivery of projects and initiatives for both external and internal stakeholders implementing best practice project management and advising on procurement legislation to ensure successful project outcomes are realised.
Hosted Procurement
To deliver procurement services and on behalf of customers, providing best practice strategic and operational advice and working with stakeholders to obtain best value, maximise benefits and increase efficiencies through process improvement.
Governance
Provide leadership and governance on National Procurement and Health Board contract processes including development and provision of management information to track progress of contract implementation and benefits delivery.
The Programme Support Officer will be responsible for providing a full range of programme support services to the Commercial Team, assisting in the organisation and administration of all aspects of Programmes, Projects and Business As Usual.
Our benefits package includes salary pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centre and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits. Further information on NSS is available from: www.nhsnss.org.
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Fiona Livingstone on 0141 282 2139 / 07773 205397.
Closing date Friday 19th July 2019.