Job summary
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, 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 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
See Job Description (JD) attached for details.
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 in pivotal role in mobilising identified cost saving initiatives and create a framework for the fast and efficient implementation of cost saving initiatives.
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 description
Job responsibilities
See more details in the attached Job Description (JD).
1 OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
1.1 To focus on in 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.
1.2 To deputise for the chair of the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group (BVMB). BVMB will be a subgroup of the Trusts Medicines Management and Therapeutics Committee. Its main function would be to ensure the cost-effective use of biologic medicines and to coordinate the savings plan on biologics and other high-cost medicines, especially biosimilars and other high-cost medicines that have their patient expired.
1.3 To support the Biologics and Medicine Value Lead pharmacists by promoting and facilitating best value in the use of HCD with a particular focus on biologic medicines (including biosimilars) ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes from the significant investment in medicines.
1.4 To play a key role in implementing savings initiatives relating to biologics, for example, introducing new biosimilar products into the Trust.
1.5 To identify savings opportunities relating to biologic medicines and implement a program of projects to achieve the savings. The Senior Pharmacy Management Team, The Medicines Effectiveness Team, NHSE Specialised Commissioning Pharmacy Team and BOB ICB Medicines Optimisation Team will support this.
1.6 To work as part of the Trusts Best Value Medicines and Biologics and Medicines Effectiveness teams to achieve the Trust's Medicines Optimisation strategy in relation to the clinical and cost-effective use of medicines within the Trust.
1.7 To work with the OUH Medicines homecare team to optimise the use of homecare for biologics and other high-cost medicines.
1.8 To work collaboratively alongside Commissioning Pharmacists to deliver the best value from the use of HCDs by supporting cost saving initiatives.
1.12 To attend and/or provide information for appropriate prescribing committee meetings such as the Trusts Medicines Management Therapeutics Committee (MMTC), Cost Effective Use of Medicines Group, Homecare User Group, as well as BOB ICBs High-Cost Drugs Group, NHSE High-Cost Drugs, Medicines Optimisation Collaborative Leadership Group (MOCL), as well as other OUH and stakeholder meetings as needed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See more details in the attached Job Description (JD).
1 OVERALL OBJECTIVES:
1.1 To focus on in 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.
1.2 To deputise for the chair of the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group (BVMB). BVMB will be a subgroup of the Trusts Medicines Management and Therapeutics Committee. Its main function would be to ensure the cost-effective use of biologic medicines and to coordinate the savings plan on biologics and other high-cost medicines, especially biosimilars and other high-cost medicines that have their patient expired.
1.3 To support the Biologics and Medicine Value Lead pharmacists by promoting and facilitating best value in the use of HCD with a particular focus on biologic medicines (including biosimilars) ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes from the significant investment in medicines.
1.4 To play a key role in implementing savings initiatives relating to biologics, for example, introducing new biosimilar products into the Trust.
1.5 To identify savings opportunities relating to biologic medicines and implement a program of projects to achieve the savings. The Senior Pharmacy Management Team, The Medicines Effectiveness Team, NHSE Specialised Commissioning Pharmacy Team and BOB ICB Medicines Optimisation Team will support this.
1.6 To work as part of the Trusts Best Value Medicines and Biologics and Medicines Effectiveness teams to achieve the Trust's Medicines Optimisation strategy in relation to the clinical and cost-effective use of medicines within the Trust.
1.7 To work with the OUH Medicines homecare team to optimise the use of homecare for biologics and other high-cost medicines.
1.8 To work collaboratively alongside Commissioning Pharmacists to deliver the best value from the use of HCDs by supporting cost saving initiatives.
1.12 To attend and/or provide information for appropriate prescribing committee meetings such as the Trusts Medicines Management Therapeutics Committee (MMTC), Cost Effective Use of Medicines Group, Homecare User Group, as well as BOB ICBs High-Cost Drugs Group, NHSE High-Cost Drugs, Medicines Optimisation Collaborative Leadership Group (MOCL), as well as other OUH and stakeholder meetings as needed.
Person Specification
Essential and Required
Essential
- 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 under-taking and supervising audits or drug use evaluations
- Experience of teaching and tutoring
Desirable
- 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
Person Specification
Essential and Required
Essential
- 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 under-taking and supervising audits or drug use evaluations
- Experience of teaching and tutoring
Desirable
- 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.
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).
