Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group Assistant

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 May 2025

Job summary

The Medicines Effectiveness Team are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity to join the newly established Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group. This innovative team, alongside the Medicines Effectiveness Team, will play a pivotal role in driving cost-saving initiatives across biologic medicines while ensuring that patients continue to receive the highest standards of care.

The Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group will focus on identifying, promoting, and implementing strategies to maximise cost-saving opportunities for both commissioners and the Trust. By evaluating and optimising biologic prescribing and usage, the team will ensure that value for money is achieved across the healthcare system, while maintaining clinical effectiveness and safety.

As a member of this dynamic team, you will work collaboratively with clinical and financial stakeholders, including prescribers, pharmacists, commissioners, and procurement teams, to identify areas where cost efficiencies can be made, particularly in the use of biosimilars and other biologic therapies. The post holder will be supporting clinical teams in all aspects relating to the mobilising of identified cost saving opportunities.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include:

Provide high quality, professional and comprehensive administration support to the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group

Support Specialist Clinical Teams and Homecare Team with day to day administrative management of prescriptions and set up of new biosimilars or other cost saving initiatives as directed by the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group.

Support pharmacists and technicians to deliver identified savings, helping with all administrative tasks associated with these switches

Maintain an accurate record of cost-saving initiatives and identified opportunities, their status, obstacles and timeline through the Cost Effective Use of Medicines (CEUM) tracker

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.

Date posted

01 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year Per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

321-CSS-7125921-B4

Job locations

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley Way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person Specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential

Enthusiastic and Motivated
Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex information with a wide range of pharmacy, nursing and medical staff (including presentations
Excellent organisational skills and time management
Good time management skills
Can work independently and use initiative
Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion

Desirable

NHS experience
Medical terminology knowledge
Experience of understanding Procurement systems and processes
Willing to travel between sites
Medical terminology knowledge
Experience in planning, organising and coordinating meeting

Person Specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential

Enthusiastic and Motivated
Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex information with a wide range of pharmacy, nursing and medical staff (including presentations
Excellent organisational skills and time management
Good time management skills
Can work independently and use initiative
Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion

Desirable

NHS experience
Medical terminology knowledge
Experience of understanding Procurement systems and processes
Willing to travel between sites
Medical terminology knowledge
Experience in planning, organising and coordinating meeting

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.