Come and join us as a High cost drugs technician!

Due to an exciting redesign of our clinical pharmacy service we have a very exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic technician to come and join a specialist clinical areas of cancer care in our growing team!

Prior experience in cancer care in not required as you will be fully supported and trained by our friendly, dedicated team you do require a thirst to learn, a passion to deliver excellent patient centred care and transferrable leadership experience.

Clatterbridge is an exciting place to continue your clinical pharmacy journey in a purpose built city centre hospital in Liverpool with state of the art facilities, working within a cutting edge clinical environment. This role represents an opportunity to develop and further progress in the rewarding specialty that is cancer care. The successful candidates will also receive mentoring and support to grow as a leader.

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre provides excellent cancer care to patients across the North West (including North Wales and the Isle of Man). We have 3 site locations the central Liverpool site and hub sites in the Wirral and Aintree.

Working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week which includes weekends. Contribution to the Bank holiday rota will be part of the post. For a detailed list of our employee benefits, please see the attached documents to this vacancy.

Main duties of the job

To act as the senior technician in relation to high-cost drugs to lead, deliver and evaluate the use of high-cost medicines used in specialised commissioning in accordance with the objectives set by the regional NHSE Pharmacy representative.

To support implementation of any QIPP, CIP, CQUINs and other cost-effective schemes relating to the use of high-cost medicines in specialised commissioning and ensure consistency across the local healthcare economy.

To support, implement and manage switching of biosimilars and other high-cost medicines in accordance to specialised commissioning criteria, in conjunction with the pharmacy, specialist teams and primary care colleagues ensuring safe, efficient, and comprehensive service.

To support NHSE workplans and objectives: completion and resolution of challenges in a timely manner, assurance of completion of Blueteq, support responding to questions raised by NHSE in a timely fashion, support regular 1:1 meetings with NHSE, assist in completion of quarterly reports for the first 12 months then annually thereafter, complete medicines value report and work closely with the Trust High cost drugs pharmacist

To ensure that high-cost medicines used in specialised commissioning are implemented and delivered safely and with high quality.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

Kind Empowered Responsible Inclusiv e

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification. Any further queries related to this please contact Laura Allen for a discussion or visit to the unit.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ level 3 Pharmaceutical Science, BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent Pharmacy Technician with GPhC

Desirable

• Certificate in procurement and supply operations

Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Knowledge of NHS funding flows
• Experience of large scale, high cost drug changes and identification of associated risks

Desirable

• Knowledge of drug change and EPMA processes

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience in pharmacy services
• Ability to work to procedures Experience

Desirable

• Knowledge of the NICE implementation process
• Demonstrable experience in change processes

Employer details

Employer name

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Address

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

65 Pembroke Place

Liverpool

L7 8YA

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158-24-171-PHA