Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medicines Value

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 35.000 - 47.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic clinical pharmacist to collaborate with the pharmacy team and deliver cost improvement initiatives. The role focuses on balancing high‑quality patient care with financial efficiency and involves working with specialist medicines, data analytics, and a range of in‑house systems.

The post supports medicines value projects, procurement, and education, with opportunities to influence prescribing practices across LUHFT and

Qualifikationen

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
• Ability to prioritise appropriately
• Ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Analytical and data manipulation skills

Aufgaben

• Assist the Pharmacist Team Leader Medicines Value in developing and delivering a medicines value improvement programme to maximise value for money and cost‑effective prescribing.
• Facilitate approval, appropriate use and audit of HCDs.
• Analyse medicine usage and expenditure to identify opportunities and financial risk.
• Develop and maintain reporting mechanisms to assure best value medicines use.
• Maintain high-quality prescribing to reduce variation and health inequality.
• Support implementation of medicines value projects and coordinate with clinical teams.
• Liaise with the pharmacy procurement team to minimise off-contract purchasing and manage supply-chain disruptions.
• Deliver duties such as Blueteq approval administration, biosimilar switches, horizon scanning, and medicines value education.

Kenntnisse

Cost improvement

Analytical skills

Clinical pharmacy

Data analysis

Teamwork

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Data manipulation

Ausbildung

Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy

GPhC registration

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

NMP qualification

Jobbeschreibung

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, WCFT 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 Pharmacist Team Leader 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.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
• Ability to prioritise appropriately
• Ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Analytical and data manipulation skills

Desirable criteria

• Ability to affect and manage change, Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent documented experience
• Full NMP qualification

Desirable criteria

• MRPharmS
• Training/experience in Quality Improvement and/or change management, Significant experience in a relevant specialist pharmacist role
• Evidence of involvement in and undertaking of audit/service evaluation
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education and training.

Desirable criteria

• Experience as a NMP
• Experience of leading and managing change projects to improve services/systems
• Line management, mentoring and experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team, Excellent clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills for the relevant specialist role
• Working knowledge of how medicines are commissioned, Computer literate

Desirable criteria

• Data analysis skills (MS Excel, Database, SQL)
• Innovative thinking, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.