An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Pharmacy Outsourcing Team within the University Hospitals of Derby & Burton (UHDB) Pharmacy High-Cost Drugs & Commissioning Team.
The successful candidate will need to have exceptional communication skills, to be conscientious, reliable, well organised, good numeracy and literacy skills and the individual should be able to prioritise their own workload effectively. Experience in homecare medicines services may be beneficial but is not essential.
Duties
The candidate will provide support to the Senior Outsourcing Team in managing and developing the pharmacy operational technical service related to Outsourced Medicines at UHDB. Some of the main duties of the role include:
Setting up new services, switching of services in particular biosimilar drug switches.
Dealing with incoming and outgoing correspondence from teams internal and external to the Trust.
Supervising the daily, weekly and monthly reporting activity associated with the Outsourced Outpatient/Homecare Pharmacy Services.
To plan, develop and organise new processes for the management of administrative work associated with the safe and accurate supply of medicines.
Supports the wider Clinical Effectiveness and Finance teams to assist with reporting and invoice queries.
Closing date of applications: 18 July 2024
Interview date: 1 August 2024
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In Return We Will Offer
Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts
We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.