Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medicines Value

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.

• 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 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.

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 £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (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. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. 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. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.