Senior Medicines Effectiveness and Homecare Technician

Senior Medicines Effectiveness and Homecare Technician

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 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.

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 of the Job

Main duties to include:

1. Support and assist the 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).
2. Co-ordinate and communicate with clinical pharmacists and homecare providers to implement cost-saving initiatives.
3. Promote the economic use of medicines whilst actively contributing to the activities of the pharmacy department to ensure high standards of pharmaceutical care for patients.
4. Maintain a locally adapted database for resources to support clinical teams with switches.
5. Liaise between clinical teams and homecare providers to support the transition of patients to best value and most cost-effective medicines.

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 Responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Essential and Desirable

• Qualified Pharmacy Technician (NVQ3) pharmaceutical sciences or other relevant qualification.
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council as a registered technician.
• Experience working in one or more aspects of medicines management in hospital.
• Good all-round understanding of medicines management and the pharmacy service.
• Ability to plan and direct own work, use initiative and attention to detail.
• Enthusiasm for using IT and developing new skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and rapport with colleagues.
• Good time management skills and a demonstrable ability to plan and deliver a project to tight deadlines.
• Experience of developing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Good IT skills, including database and Excel, equivalent to RSA Level 3.
• Experience of working in a pharmacy homecare setting.
• Interest in formulary management.
• Formal project management training.
• An NVQ Assessor.
• Good time management skills and a demonstrable ability to plan and deliver a project to tight deadlines.
• IT skill qualification (ECDL).

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.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata.