Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medicines Value | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Apply to become a Medicines Value Pharmacist!
This is a fantastic opportunity to combine expertise in pharmaceutical care with delivering financial sustainability in the medicines expenditure.
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated clinical pharmacist to work collaboratively and innovatively with the pharmacy team and help deliver cost improvement initiatives and projects for both LUHFT and the wider healthcare system.
To excel in this role you need to adaptable, with excellent analytical skills, and be able to balance delivery of high-quality patient care with optimising financial efficiency.
In addition to managing cost improvement projects, you will play a key role in delivering clinical services within the specialist medicine directorates. You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to optimise the use of specialist and high-cost medicines, manage resources efficiently, and enhance patient outcomes.
We have a fully integrated electronic prescribing system along with unique in-house systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to patients and utilise available data and business intelligence to identify new opportunities for savings and efficiency.
LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across 3 sites providing clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties.
Assist the Lead Pharmacist(s) Medicines Value in the development and delivery of a medicines value improvement programme with the remit of maximising value for money, assuring cost effective prescribing and medicines management.
Facilitate the:- approval, appropriate use, and audit of HCDs.
- analysis of medicine usage and expenditure, to identify improvement opportunities and financial risk.
- management and development of reporting mechanisms to provide assurance of best value medicines use.
- maintenance and improvement of high-quality prescribing practice, reducing variation and health inequality.
- reduce untoward variation where identified.
To act as the point of contact and provide support to clinical teams during medicines value project implementation, to enable them to make changes in line with the identified schemes and projects, and to agreed timeframes.
Liaise and support the pharmacy procurement team to minimise off contract purchasing; manage supply-chain disruptions; and ensure that the most cost-effective dispensing routes are used for HCDs.
Support the delivery of the following duties amongst others:- administration of Blueteq approval system.
- biosimilar switch implementation.
- complete the annual pharmacy horizon scanning process.
- deliver the medicines value education programme.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
The LUHFT pharmacy department is continuously undergoing dynamic and innovative changes to further develop and improve our clinical and operational services, aiming to be at the forefront of pharmaceutical care! We are committed to staff development and nurturing expertise in our workforce, including future plans to develop consultant pharmacist posts.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification
Please contact us to discuss the job in detail and/or arrange a visit/tour of our hospitals, and meet the team. We look forward to meeting you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024