Senior Pharmacy Homecare Business Officer

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

The closing date is 08 May 2025

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Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is currently has an exciting opportunity of a secondment/temporary contract for a Senior Pharmacy Homecare Business Officer to work within our Medicines Homecare team. You will work closely alongside a team of experienced technical, professional and homecare administration, staff to maintain and develop a high standard of Medicines Homecare to patients with often long term and complex conditions who receive their medication at home.

You need to be highly competent in purchasing or financial processing tasks, with a meticulous eye for detail, and able to turn round large volumes of work accurately to tight deadlines. Experience of working in a busy financial environment is ideal. The role will involve liaison with clinicians, clinical pharmacists and nurse specialists as well as external homecare and pharmaceutical companies.

Main duties of the job

The post holder's primary focus will be to support the financial and businessmanagement of the Pharmacy Department and Trust by providing general finance and purchasing support to the NUH Pharmacy Homecare team and supervising on all aspects of the administration of homecare financial processing. The role incorporates Trust-wide processing, and therefore the post holder will be required to work at QMC, City and Treatment Centre Homecare offices.

Medicines homecare can be described as the dispensing and delivery of ongoing medicine supplies by a THIRD party homecare provider. All services are initiated by the hospital, delivered direct to the patients home with their consent. This improves patient care, gives them a choice of their clinical treatment, most find it a lot more convenient

About us

With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Date posted

16 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

164-7102554

Job locations

Trust Wide

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the main responsibilities of this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the main responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a business or office environment
  • Good knowledge of financial processes and procedures involved.
  • Good level of knowledge and experience of IT software, in particular strong Excel spreadsheet skills

Desirable

  • Knowledge and experience of specialised Pharmacy terminology and of pharmaceutical products.
  • Experience of homecare systems and processes

Communication and relationship

Essential

  • Able to provide day-to-day supervision, coordinating a team of purchasing staff

Desirable

  • Ability to train and develop others
  • Able to communicate effectively with both internal and external, financial and non-financial staff

Analytical and Judgement skill

Essential

  • Able to analyses financial and purchasing data
  • Able to handle sensitive information confidentially
  • Ability to problem solve independently

Planning and organisation skil

Essential

  • Able to work under pressure and demands from varying and conflicting sources within the Trust and externally
  • Able to work both proactively using own initiative and as an effective and flexible member of a team

Physical skills

Essential

  • Evidence of IT skills
  • Able to use a keyboard for a large part of the day

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ level 4 in accounting, business administration or relevant training, knowledge and experience equivalent to NVQ Level 4.

Desirable

  • Basic IT qualification
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a business or office environment
  • Good knowledge of financial processes and procedures involved.
  • Good level of knowledge and experience of IT software, in particular strong Excel spreadsheet skills

Desirable

  • Knowledge and experience of specialised Pharmacy terminology and of pharmaceutical products.
  • Experience of homecare systems and processes

Communication and relationship

Essential

  • Able to provide day-to-day supervision, coordinating a team of purchasing staff

Desirable

  • Ability to train and develop others
  • Able to communicate effectively with both internal and external, financial and non-financial staff

Analytical and Judgement skill

Essential

  • Able to analyses financial and purchasing data
  • Able to handle sensitive information confidentially
  • Ability to problem solve independently

Planning and organisation skil

Essential

  • Able to work under pressure and demands from varying and conflicting sources within the Trust and externally
  • Able to work both proactively using own initiative and as an effective and flexible member of a team

Physical skills

Essential

  • Evidence of IT skills
  • Able to use a keyboard for a large part of the day

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ level 4 in accounting, business administration or relevant training, knowledge and experience equivalent to NVQ Level 4.

Desirable

  • Basic IT qualification

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Trust Wide

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Trust Wide

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Advanced Technician - Medicines Homecare

Toni Clipstone

Toni.Clipstone@nhs.net

07976190117

Date posted

16 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

164-7102554

Job locations

Trust Wide

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


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