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Band 3 Pharmacy Commissioning SATO | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,948 - £29,468 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 September 2024 |
| Location: | Hampstead, NW3 2QG |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6517770/391-RFL-6517770 |
Summary
Pharmacy Commissioning Post 1 permanent and 1 FTC for 12 month.
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trustis looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic Senior Assistant Technical Officer (SATO) to support the Trust Pharmacy Clinical Commissioning Team. The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and communication skills and be able to combine the ability to work within a team with the initiative of working alone. You will be part of the RFL Clinical Commissioning team which will help you in developing your knowledge and skills.
Key duties of the role include:
Provision of technical support to the Pharmacy Clinical Commissioning Team.
Capturing commissioning information in respect to Trust High Cost Drugs.
Manage data entry on relevant databases
Liaise with external commissioners (NHS England and Integrated care boards) to ensure that all information provided to the Trust is captured whilst also managing the information submitted externally.
You are also expected to have achieved NVQ level 2 or be studying for the appropriate accreditation.
The post-holder will work within the Pharmacy Clinical Commissioning Team to ensure all financial and commissioning data for high-cost medicines are reported to the Trust Finance and Commissioning Departments to ensure timely billing to external commissioners. This will include ensuring that the Trust database is maintained in respect to external reporting requirements including but not limited to patient details, medication (including form, dose, amount of medication supplied), indication and any other requirements requested by the Trust or the commissioners. In addition, they will assist in the maintenance of additional Pharmacy databases which are used to inform external commissioners.
It is mandatory for all Senior Assistant Technical Officers to have achieved NVQ level 2 or be studying for the appropriate accreditation.
Key duties of the role include:
· Capturing commissioning information in respect to Trust High-Cost Drugs.
· Manage data entry on relevant databases.
· Liaise with external commissioners (NHS England and Integrated care boards) to ensure that all information provided to the Trust is captured whilst also managing the information submitted externally.
· Opportunities to partake in audits, service improvements, and data analysis.
· Provision of technical advice on pharmacy database and commissioning databases to service users.
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free Hospitals and more than 30 services in the community. Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
The Trust takes pride as one of the major specialist centres for infectious diseases, liver and renal transplants, breast and plastic surgery, myeloma, and neuroendocrine tumours. Working in one of the main speciality centres brings exciting opportunities to see a range of patients at different levels of complexities.Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital.
In conjunction with the Pharmacy Clinical Commissioning Team the postholder will provide a full and comprehensive information collection service to ensure that all systems which capture data on medications which are funded externally by commissioners are robust, to
ensure maximum efficiency, safety and economic drug use and to demonstrate professional accountability which contributes to patient care.The responsibilities include:
· The delivery of high quality pharmacy clinical commissioning information.
· To ensure that all pharmacy commissioning records are complete and accurate and are attributed to the correct medical team or Consultant.
· To ensure the safe, effective and economical use of drugs for all patients within the Trust
· Provision of a high quality reporting to commissioners which allows patients to continue their medications without risk of withdrawal of any agents due to information gaps;
· To develop, implement and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for own area and to contribute to policies when appropriate.
· To follow all departmental SOPs.
· To liaise with the multi-disciplinary teams, clinical nurse specialists, consultnats and pharmacy staff as required
· To work with managers and colleagues to continually improve the quality of services within the overall clinical commissioning governance framework.
· To participate in and attend relevant multidisciplinary meetings.
· To support in the preparation and circulation of paperwork for relevant Multidisciplinary meetings.
· To ensure that all patients receiving externally commissioned medications have in date approvals from the relevant commissioner.
· To be responsible for matching written information with electronic and faxed information for all externally commissioned medications.
· To be responsible for identifying discrepancies between agreed prices e.g. contract prices, and the price on JAC/ invoiced by the company.
· To be responsible for photocopying and filing all clinical commissioning paperwork.
· To maintain the databases for patients receiving treatment for all externally commissioned medications, adding new patients and updating existing patient data, as necessary, according to information received from the specialist nurses or pharmacists etc. To remove data for patients who have stopped treatment and archive it.
· To liaise with the Pharmacy Homecare Team to ensure that all information for patients receiving medications via homecare services is captured and entered onto the Pharmacy Clinical Commissioning database
· To identify and prioritise therapy services to individuals and groups of pharmacist according to agreed policies and service.
· To implement and maintain an effective system for tracking the progress of commissioning requests.
· To act as an effective role model and to provide pharmacy clinical commissioning advice and support to members of the multidisciplinary team
· To be familiar with the pharmacy homecare databases;
· To accurately input data into the pharmacy databases;
· To maintain the administration of all patients receiving highs cost medicines – this includes capturing the registration, suspension, re-instatement and discontinuation of patients treatments where appropriate.
· To be a super user of the Pharmacy Commissioning database and be able to resolve administrative issues.
· To keep the price list updated for medications which are externally funded and the delivery and services costs for specific treatments.
· To help staff in all sections of the department, in the lead up to the annual stock take, to ensure all stock levels are correct and discrepancies investigated.
· To help compile the monthly report for Finance and Commissioning departments for all high cost drugs supplied to patients. To email copies of the report to designated members of the hospital staff by 5th day of each month and supply hard copies, as required.
· To compile reports as directed by the clinical commissioning pharmacist in a timely manner.
· To be responsible for setting up the physical files for new patients, to file the new patient profiles and remove and archive the files for patients who have stopped a specific treatment. To archive so that information can easily be found, if needed in the future. To reorganise the electronic and hard copy filing information containing the details of the above patients, if / when expansion of the number of patients being treated for a specific disease, makes this necessary.
· To ensure patient confidentiality is maintained at all times when dealing with agencies outside The Trust.
· If required to cover for the Homecare and MTA senior technical assistants, to ensure the invoice is correct, to enter the data on to the pharmacy JAC computer for payment purposes and book the drugs to the patient’s consultant, for stock control and budget purposes.
· If required to cover for the Homecare and MTA senior technical assistants, to check the invoices from the transport companies against the records made and pass the invoices for payment. To investigate and verify any record, on the invoice, which pertains to transport ordered by any other section of the pharmacy.
· Other relevant duties as assigned by the Clinical Commissioning Lead Pharmacist, Manager or Head of Department.
This advert closes on Monday 19 Aug 2024