Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medicines Value

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group seeks a dynamic clinical pharmacist to collaborate with the pharmacy team, delivering cost improvement projects for LUHFT, WCFT and the wider system. You will optimise use of specialist/high-cost medicines while maintaining excellent patient care.

Join a large, integrated Trust with a focus on value for money, reporting, and improvement programmes across three sites in Merseyside.

Qualifications

• Adaptable with excellent analytical skills.
• Able to balance delivery of high-quality patient care with optimising financial efficiency.
• Experience delivering cost improvement initiatives and projects.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• administration of Blueteq approval system.
• biosimilar switch implementation.
• complete the annual pharmacy horizon scanning process.
• deliver the medicines value education programme.

Skills

Analytical skills

Cost improvement

Clinical pharmacy

Data and BI

Adaptability

Tools

Blueteq approval system

Job description

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, 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.

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.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tara Callagy Job title: Pharmacist Team Leader- Medicines Value Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0151 7064593