Biologics and Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Medicines Effectiveness Team are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity to join the newly established Best Value Medicines and Biologics Team in OUHFT. This innovative 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 Team 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.
Main Duties of the Job
As a member of this dynamic team, you will work collaboratively with clinical and financial stakeholders, including prescribers, pharmacists, commissioners, homecare 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 play a pivotal role in mobilising identified cost-saving initiatives and create a framework for the fast and efficient implementation of these initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
1. To focus on the creation of a robust framework to facilitate the early and successful implementation of identified upcoming biosimilars, enabling the Trust to maximize cost efficiencies while maintaining high standards of patient care.
2. To deputise for the chair of the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group (BVMB), ensuring the cost-effective use of biologic medicines and coordinating the savings plan on biologics and other high-cost medicines.
3. To support the Biologics and Medicine Value Lead pharmacists by promoting and facilitating best value in the use of high-cost drugs (HCD) with a focus on biologic medicines.
4. To play a key role in implementing savings initiatives relating to biologics, such as introducing new biosimilar products into the Trust.
5. To identify savings opportunities relating to biologic medicines and implement a program of projects to achieve these savings.
6. To work as part of the Trust's Best Value Medicines and Biologics and Medicines Effectiveness teams to achieve the Trust's Medicines Optimisation strategy.
7. To work with the OUH Medicines homecare team to optimise the use of homecare for biologics and other high-cost medicines.
8. To collaborate alongside Commissioning Pharmacists to deliver the best value from the use of HCDs by supporting cost-saving initiatives.
9. To attend and/or provide information for appropriate prescribing committee meetings.
Person Specification
Essential and Required
* Qualified to masters degree level (4 year MPharm) or equivalent Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
* Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience.
* Experience of working as a clinical pharmacist at a high level in a variety of clinical areas.
* Budget management or monitoring ability and demonstrable success in achieving savings.
* Experience in creating evidence-based reviews on medicines.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of undertaking and supervising audits or drug use evaluations.
* Experience of teaching and tutoring.
* MSc in Clinical Pharmacy.
* Involvement in a pharmacist-led outpatient clinic.
* Experience of developing drug protocols/contributing to formulary development.
* Clinical experience in managing biologic medicines and other high-cost medicines use.
* Contributing to publications/conference presentations at regional or national/international level.
* Accredited tutor for Cardiff University Clinical Pharmacy Diploma (or meets criteria to become accredited if an accredited tutor for another diploma).
* Accredited Non-medical prescriber.
* Experience of preparing budgetary reports for clinical areas.
* Involvement in developing a service within pharmacy.
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.
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year, per annum pro rata
Reference Number
321-CSS-6815986-B8a
Job Locations
Pharmacy Department - John Radcliffe Site
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