Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medicines Value inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED
WED 27 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include managing cost improvement projects, analyzing medicine usage and expenditures, supporting clinical teams with project implementation, and liaising with the pharmacy procurement team to streamline purchasing. The role also entails maintaining high-quality prescribing practices, reducing health inequalities, and implementing educational programs related to medication value.
Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, adaptability, and the ability to balance patient care with financial efficiency. The position supports a fully integrated electronic prescribing system and offers opportunities for innovation in enhancing medicines management within the healthcare system.
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 tominimise off contract purchasing;manage supply-chain disruptions; andensure 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.
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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!
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