Procurement & Performance Support Officer

HCRG Staffing are looking for a Procurement & Performance Support Officer in Commissioning & Placements, to work in a Council in Oldbury, Sandwell, although remote working is available too!

Sandwell Children's Trust are recruiting for a Procurement & Performance Support Officer for the Commissioning & Placements Team. We are looking for an exceptional candidate who is passionate, committed and dedicated to improving the lives of children & young people. The post holder will support the Commissioning & Placements Team in the function of commissioning external placements, liaising with internal fostering team and supporting the Placement and Procurement Officers on the duty rota.

The post holders' responsibilities will be: -

• To support the preparation and issue of procurement and contractual documentation and information.
• To prepare and issue monitoring documentation to service providers.
• To prepare information on services from monitoring information to assist with service review meetings.
• To contribute to the evaluation of services by supporting collection of evidence of outcomes from service providers.
• To monitor reported service activity against agreed milestones and Service Level Agreements and use judgements to assess and resolve conflicts in information, reporting to Procurement staff any variances or issues identified.

Candidates will need to have:

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Business Studies
• Minimum of 18 months experience of working in a busy office environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with a range of stakeholders including staff from public and voluntary sector organisations and the general public.
• Ability to collate information from a variety of sources.
• Excellent administrative and IT skills.
• Knowledge of project management

The service are looking for someone to work 37 hours per week and you can work part time from home. 2 or 3 days office based per week and the rest from home.

Locum contract until January 2025 and excellent pay rate of £19.77 per hour (using an umbrella of your choice).

Know anyone else that may be interested? We offer a generous refer a friend bonus - give Emily a call on (phone number removed)!

To discuss this role or our other roles throughout the UK, apply with your CV or call Emily King on (phone number removed)

About HCRG Staffing

HCRG Staffing is one of the UK's leading suppliers of allied healthcare and health sciences professionals. We work with candidates to provide flexible, career-boosting roles all across the UK.

With years of experience, a huge number of awards and relationships with hundreds of NHS trusts & private hospitals in every corner of Britain, we can offer you opportunities to suit your lifestyle and ambitions - whether on a locum or permanent basis. We can also support nurses at every level, and across a number of disciplines, including Dietitians, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Radiography, Sonography, Speech & Language Therapy, Biomedical Sciences, Cardiology, Pharmacy and Phlebotomy.

Benefits HCRG Staffing can offer you:

• Weekly payment
• Competitive pay rates
• Lucrative refer a friend scheme*
• Opportunities with hundreds of NHS trusts
• Access to exclusive placements
• A dedicated recruitment consultant
• A Dedicated registration team to help you through the application process
• Free mandatory training

HCRG Staffing is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, age, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity or disability.

This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. HCRG Staffing operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities