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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
321-CSS-6182381-B8a
Employer
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
John Radcliffe Hospital
Town
Oxford
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum/ pro-rata
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Pharmacist: Clinical Commissioning & Cancer High Cost Drugs

Band 8a

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

 

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

 

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values


 

Job overview

This is a unique opportunity to be part of the OUH clinical commissioning and medicines effectiveness team. This post is ideal for any pharmacists who are looking to take the next step in their career, or to diversify their experience and improve their knowledge of high cost medicines. 

Main duties of the job

1. To be responsible for identifying and facilitating implementation of any Quality,  Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) schemes relating to high cost cancer drug usage at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and sharing any schemes with other local providers to ensure consistency across the healthcare economy.

2. To implement and manage the processes for approval, appropriate use and audit of high cost cancer drugs associated with specialised services.

3. To ensure that those treatments supported by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisals are implemented according to the published recommendations within the Trust.

4. To provide professional and independent advice to area team pharmacists and other commissioners to ensure that any relevant financial and implementation issues for NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance are identified and articulated at an early stage.

5. To support the business planning and contracting process for high cost and specialist medicines and ensure national commissioning policies and protocols for those high cost treatments that sit outside NICE recommendations are implemented according to agreed criteria.

6. To provide an effective interface between commissioners and the Trust regarding the use of high cost cancer medicines.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

 

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See detailed job description for further details. Main responsibilities summarised as below:

1. Lead on NICE and NHS England commissioning policy implementation, including:

  • Development of effective systems for identifying and reviewing impending NICE guidance on High Cost Cancer Drugs (HCCDs)
  • Identify financial impact of such recommendations with commissioners, including population sizes and costs per capita
  • Implement and develop a process to identify and where appropriate authorise acute Trust use of high cost and out of tariff medicines, including NICE, for individual patients meeting agreed criteria
  • Ensure robust policies and procedures are in place to effectively manage Patient Access Schemes (PAS) and related claims/income

2. Act as first point of contact for high cost cancer drug commissioning queries within the Trust, seeking advice from the Area Team specialist pharmacist and Clinical Commissioning Pharmacist network when required.

3. Provide professional support and training on commissioning and interface issues to the medicines management teams in the Trust.

4. Manage the Trust processes for electronic approval of high cost cancer drugs through the Trust Electronic Prescribing System or standalone web-based systems as agreed between the commissioners and the Trust.

5.  Provide support and manage the process for implementation of early access to medicines schemes at the OUH, as well as other cancer compassionate use schemes.

6. Provide a quarterly report of work undertaken for presentation to the Trust and the  commissioner

Person specification

Shortlist Offline

Essential criteria
  • Add "2" for interview "0" for rejected

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Afroditi Papachristou
Job title
Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Commissioning
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01865 234953
Additional information

Please also copy in any communication Olobunmi Fajemisin [email protected]

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