Pharmacy Purchasing and ICT Officer

Overview

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust invites applications for the role of Pharmacy Purchasing and ICT Officer. The closing date is 02 March 2026
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Based at QMC campus within a small team, you will be responsible for ordering medicines for both QMC and City campus, supporting Pharmacy ICT tasks, and ensuring efficient supply and data integrity.

• Placing daily orders for medicines and other pharmaceutical items used across the Trust.
• Ensuring medicines pricing is accurate, and resolving pricing and supplier queries.
• Liaising with clinical colleagues to ensure uninterrupted product supply.
• Maintaining and reconciling systems and data relating to areas such as medical gas supplies across the Trust.
• Support the Pharmacy ICT teams with tasks such as creating new user accounts, importing new medicines into the system catalogue, supporting month-end reports, resetting passwords, handling helpdesk calls, and similar ICT related tasks appropriate to the grade.

The Pharmacy purchasing function sits within the wider Pharmacy Medicines Finance Team. We are a friendly, hard-working team who are an important part of the Hospital Pharmacy department. If you are keen to develop your career in a varied and fast-moving environment, we want to hear from you.

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

• NVQ Level 3 in business administration, purchasing or equivalent, or by demonstration of experience, knowledge and skills at this level relevant to these qualifications
• A minimum of 4 GCSE's or equivalent at grades A-C including English and Maths

• Experience of financial systems and processes, including processing financial transactions, such as invoices and orders
• Good level of knowledge and experience of IT software, in particular strong Excel spreadsheet skills
• Experience of purchasing and the processes involved
• Experience in a high volume, fast-moving business environment
• Proven verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work both proactively using own initiative and as an effective and flexible member of a team
• Able to communicate effectively with both internal and external, financial and non-financial staff

• Numerate and able to analyse and present data and take appropriate actions
• Able to handle sensitive information confidentially
• Good organisational skills; able to prioritise and deliver accurate results to deadlines under pressure

• Able to achieve both speed and high levels of accuracy when undertaking financial data tasks, whilst experiencing interruptions
• Able to use a keyboard for a large part of the day

• Conscientious, reliable, self-motivated, mature outlook, results-orientated
• Adaptable and flexible
• Commitment to continuous improvement of customer-focused services

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.

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