A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Medicines Effectiveness Team are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity to join the newly establishedBest 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.
TheBest Value Medicines and Biologics Groupwill 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.
The successful candidate will provide Senior Pharmacy Technician support to all homecare services, with a special interest in areas relating to the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group.
Main duties to include:
To support andassistthe Pharmacy Homecare Service Manager and Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group in cost effective procurement and delivery of Homecare medicines and services for the OUH NHS Foundation Trust(OUH).
Co-ordinate and communicate with clinical pharmacistsand homecare providersto implementcost saving initiatives.
To promote the economic use of medicines whilst actively contributing to the activities of the pharmacy department to ensure high standardsquality of pharmaceutical care for patients.
Maintain alocally adapted database for resources to support clinical teams with switches
To be the liaison between clinical teams,and homecare providersandsupport the transition of patients tobestvalue and mostcost-effectivemedicines
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 theOUH YouTube channel.
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities
This advert closes on Thursday 2 Jan 2025
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