Job Posted: 31 March 2025
Job Updated: 11 April 2025
Job: NHS Supply Chain Graduate Trainee Auditor
Location: Hybrid working from Nottingham or Alfreton offices.
Salary: £29,006 potential to increase after the 6 months’ probation.
Closing Date: Monday 28th April 2025
NHS Supply Chain has opened applications for their 2025 Graduate Scheme Programme.
At NHS Supply Chain, you don’t have to be a health practitioner to make a difference to patients. Our purpose is to deliver supply chain excellence and best value to NHS customers and patients through innovation, service, and clinical expertise.
The NHS is the biggest organisation in the UK. And it relies on billions of medical devices and specialist items every year to provide expert care. We’re here to buy safe, quality products that are exactly what our practitioners need.
At the same time, we’re working towards becoming the world’s first net-zero national health system by 2040. To achieve this, we’re constantly innovating and using data and technology to drive our efficiency.
What if you could use your skills to make a difference in the world? We’re looking for the brightest brains to work in essential areas across the business. This year, we have a variety of fantastic graduate opportunities, and we’d love to talk with you about them.
Make your Work Count. Begin a rewarding career at NHS Supply Chain.
Graduate Trainee – Auditor
As a Graduate Trainee you will be working in our Risk, Assurance and Compliance Team, which is part of our Finance directorate. The team is small, but it has a big reach. We manage programmes of work that include audit and assurance, risk management, business continuity, compliance and quality management. We also work closely with every part of the business. So, joining the team is a great way to learn about the whole business.
What does a Auditor Graduate Trainee do at NHS Supply Chain?
As a Graduate Trainee in the Risk, Assurance and Compliance Team you will spend time working in each of the three core parts of the team: audit and assurance, risk management and compliance.
During your time in audit and assurance, you will help audit the contracts with our logistics and IT Service Providers as well as our outsourced Category Management Service Providers. This will involve both cost and contract audits. You will also test some of our key internal controls to make sure they are well designed and operating effectively.
Whilst working in risk management, you will get to understand the key risks the business faces and understand how they are managed. You will also be involved in some of our regular risk management meetings, such as the Risk Champions Network, the Risk Steering Group and the Risk Forum.
Working with our Compliance Team, you will be involved with a range of activities related to the key laws and regulations we must comply with. These could include maintaining the system we use to manage colleague declarations (such as conflicts of interest or gifts and hospitality), compliance training and helping to maintain core policies.
The programme will last up to 3 years, during which time you will also complete relevant external training courses (such as the Internal Audit Practitioner qualification from the Institute of Internal Audit or the ISO 27001 Lead Auditor qualification). You will be allocated a mentor for the duration of your programme and the opportunity to gain feedback.
With the support from others in the team, as a Graduate Trainee, you will also work with senior leaders in the business to deliver strategic projects that closely support the businesses goals. You will support large projects needed to deliver the business plans and will eventually lead on smaller projects with appropriate support, guidance, and training.
What skills will help you thrive in this role?
We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:
We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
NHS Supply Chain, who are we?
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.
Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at Careers@supplychain.nhs.uk
At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.
Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.
