Job summary
Join our Pharmacy Business & Transformation Team and help drive meaningful, innovative change in healthcare. You'll have the opportunity to:o Lead on identifying, developing, and implementing a variety of cost-saving, transformational, and quality improvement projects across the Trust and local healthcare system.o Enhance and streamline systems to ensure the highest quality data, while maximising the recovery of PBR-excluded drug spend. You'll work closely with informatics, contracts, and finance teams to ensure accurate SLAM reporting.
This is a part-time (0.6WTE), fixed-term maternity cover contract, concluding on 26 July 2027.
Interviews will be face to face only so you should ensure you are able to attend in person.
Main duties of the job
In this pivotal role, you'll actively contribute to the delivery of the Trust's "True North" objectives and support the achievement of financial balance both within the Trust and across the wider healthcare system.
About us
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Job description
Job responsibilities
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust spent circa £54m on medicines in 2021/22, of which approximately £48m was on PBR excluded medicines (i.e. high cost drugs excluded from tariff) and £6.7m on PBR medicines (i.e. medicines included in the tariff). The pharmacy co-ordinates the medicines management cost improvement and transformation programme, which has consistently delivered over £1.5m for the last few years. In addition, the Trust works closely with Surrey Heartlands CCG to support delivery of the QIPP programme and there is a joint medicines transformation programme to support the Guildford & Waverley ICP.
The Lead Pharmacy Technician for Transformation & High Cost drugs, will work as part of the Pharmacy Business & Transformation Team, and will play a pivotal role in:
Identifying, developing and implementing a range of cost improvement, transformation and quality improvement projects both within the Trust and across the local healthcare system
Improving and maintaining systems and processes for high quality data and maximising the pass through of PBR excluded drug spend to commissioners; ensuring close working with the informatics, contracts and finance teams to ensure accurate SLAM reporting
Job description
Job responsibilities
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust spent circa £54m on medicines in 2021/22, of which approximately £48m was on PBR excluded medicines (i.e. high cost drugs excluded from tariff) and £6.7m on PBR medicines (i.e. medicines included in the tariff). The pharmacy co-ordinates the medicines management cost improvement and transformation programme, which has consistently delivered over £1.5m for the last few years. In addition, the Trust works closely with Surrey Heartlands CCG to support delivery of the QIPP programme and there is a joint medicines transformation programme to support the Guildford & Waverley ICP.
The Lead Pharmacy Technician for Transformation & High Cost drugs, will work as part of the Pharmacy Business & Transformation Team, and will play a pivotal role in:
Identifying, developing and implementing a range of cost improvement, transformation and quality improvement projects both within the Trust and across the local healthcare system
Improving and maintaining systems and processes for high quality data and maximising the pass through of PBR excluded drug spend to commissioners; ensuring close working with the informatics, contracts and finance teams to ensure accurate SLAM reporting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent Technician Registrant with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Supervisory or Management qualification
- Project or programme management qualification e.g. PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational training and experience
- Substantial post-qualification pharmacy experience
- Experience using hospital pharmacy systems
- Knowledge and experience of establishing and/or managing systems and processes for PBR excluded drugs
- Experience of designing and implementing cost improvement, quality improvement and/or transformation projects
- Understanding of background to, and aims of, national and local healthcare policy/guidance and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and priorities
- Specialist knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice as developed through experience and CPD
- Knowledge and experience of data analysis and interpretation of data
- Advanced computer literacy, particularly databases, Excel
- Experience of producing reports that meet the needs of end users
- Experience of supervision or line managing others
- Evidence of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups
- Previous experience of delivering training and education
- Evidence of activity in audit to improve practice
- Experience of developing policies, procedures, evidence based guidelines, shared care guidelines
- Current developments in pharmacy
- Knowledge of changes occurring in the NHS and how this impacts upon the role and its priorities
- Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations, based on deep tacit understanding and make decisions with limited information
Desirable
- Experience in using JAC
- Contributor to at least one service development
- Knowledge and experience of commissioning processes
- Knowledge and experience of using Blueteq
- Knowledge and experience of audit methodology
- Experience of working with EPMA /EPR systems
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent Technician Registrant with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Supervisory or Management qualification
- Project or programme management qualification e.g. PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational training and experience
- Substantial post-qualification pharmacy experience
- Experience using hospital pharmacy systems
- Knowledge and experience of establishing and/or managing systems and processes for PBR excluded drugs
- Experience of designing and implementing cost improvement, quality improvement and/or transformation projects
- Understanding of background to, and aims of, national and local healthcare policy/guidance and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and priorities
- Specialist knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice as developed through experience and CPD
- Knowledge and experience of data analysis and interpretation of data
- Advanced computer literacy, particularly databases, Excel
- Experience of producing reports that meet the needs of end users
- Experience of supervision or line managing others
- Evidence of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups
- Previous experience of delivering training and education
- Evidence of activity in audit to improve practice
- Experience of developing policies, procedures, evidence based guidelines, shared care guidelines
- Current developments in pharmacy
- Knowledge of changes occurring in the NHS and how this impacts upon the role and its priorities
- Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations, based on deep tacit understanding and make decisions with limited information
Desirable
- Experience in using JAC
- Contributor to at least one service development
- Knowledge and experience of commissioning processes
- Knowledge and experience of using Blueteq
- Knowledge and experience of audit methodology
- Experience of working with EPMA /EPR systems
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).
