Job summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the newly established Best Value Medicines and Biologics Team. This innovative team will drive cost-saving initiatives in biologic medicines while ensuring patients receive the highest standards of care. By identifying, promoting, and implementing strategies to maximise savings for both commissioners and the Trust, the team will focus on optimising biologic prescribing and usage, ensuring value for money without compromising clinical effectiveness and safety.
Main duties of the job
As per Job Description (JD) - please read for more information.
As a specialist pharmacist in this dynamic team, you will build on your foundational knowledge and skills while gaining experience across multiple clinical areas. You will work collaboratively with clinical and financial stakeholders, including prescribers, clinical pharmacists, commissioners, and procurement teams, to identify and implement cost efficiencies, particularly in the use of biosimilars and other biologic therapies. The role involves assisting clinical teams, rotating based on where savings are identified, and supporting all aspects of mobilising cost-saving opportunities, as directed by the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Lead Pharmacist.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Direct Patient Care
1. Deliver compassionate excellence by providing a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service in line with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures. This includes ensuring that biologic switches maintain the highest standard of patient care.
2. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action. You will be directly involved in managing homecare prescriptions, ensuring patients receive their medications efficiently and safely as they transition to new biologic therapies.
3. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, in a way that facilitates shared decision making. This will be especially crucial when explaining changes related to biologic therapies and homecare prescriptions.
4. Optimise the transfer of patient care by completing timely medicines reconciliation, particularly when patients transition to homecare services. Maintain communication with GPs, community pharmacy teams, and homecare providers to ensure continuity of care during biologic therapy switches.
5. Where a scope of practice has been identified, train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trusts policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
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7. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety, and medicines effectiveness initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Direct Patient Care
1. Deliver compassionate excellence by providing a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service in line with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures. This includes ensuring that biologic switches maintain the highest standard of patient care.
2. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action. You will be directly involved in managing homecare prescriptions, ensuring patients receive their medications efficiently and safely as they transition to new biologic therapies.
3. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, in a way that facilitates shared decision making. This will be especially crucial when explaining changes related to biologic therapies and homecare prescriptions.
4. Optimise the transfer of patient care by completing timely medicines reconciliation, particularly when patients transition to homecare services. Maintain communication with GPs, community pharmacy teams, and homecare providers to ensure continuity of care during biologic therapy switches.
5. Where a scope of practice has been identified, train to become a NMP and when registered with the GPhC and the OUH to prescribe within the Trusts policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
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7. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety, and medicines effectiveness initiatives.
Person Specification
Both essential and desirable
Essential
- Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy & GPHC registration
- Direct patient care in more than one setting or clinical area.
- Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialing via CPPE/ RPS
Desirable
- Independent Prescriber
- Taking the lead in a team or project
- Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
- Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
- Appreciation of funding streams for medicines budgets.
- Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or experience/ qualification/ credentialing deemed equivalent.
Person Specification
Both essential and desirable
Essential
- Masters Degree (4 year MPharm or equivalent) in Pharmacy & GPHC registration
- Direct patient care in more than one setting or clinical area.
- Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice and due to complete the diploma, or equivalent external credentialing via CPPE/ RPS
Desirable
- Independent Prescriber
- Taking the lead in a team or project
- Demonstrating measurable outcomes from quality or service improvement
- Quality improvement, service evaluation or audit
- Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
- Appreciation of funding streams for medicines budgets.
- Post Graduate Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or experience/ qualification/ credentialing deemed equivalent.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
