Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term to cover maternity leave - ends 19 January 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF17055-B7-A
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacy Technician for Transformation & High Cost Drugs
Band 7
Job overview
Join our dynamic team as the Lead Pharmacy Technician for Transformation & High-Cost Drugs! This exciting role within our Pharmacy Business & Transformation Team offers the chance to be at the forefront of innovative healthcare improvements.
In this pivotal role, you’ll actively contribute to the delivery of the Trust’s "True North" objectives and support the achievement of financial balance both within the Trust and across the wider healthcare system.
If you're ready to make a real impact in healthcare transformation, apply now!
This is a full-time, fixed-term maternity cover contract, commencing on the 20th January 2025 and concluding on the 19th January 2026.
Main duties of the job
You’ll have the opportunity to:
• Lead on identifying, developing, and implementing a variety of cost-saving, transformational, and quality improvement projects across the Trust and local healthcare system.
• Enhance and streamline systems to ensure the highest quality data, while maximising the recovery of PBR-excluded drug spend. You’ll work closely with informatics, contracts, and finance teams to ensure accurate SLAM reporting.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust spent circa £54m on medicines in 2021/22, of which approximately £48m was on PBR excluded medicines (i.e. high cost drugs excluded from tariff) and £6.7m on PBR medicines (i.e. medicines included in the tariff). The pharmacy co-ordinates the medicines management cost improvement and transformation programme, which has consistently delivered over £1.5m for the last few years. In addition, the Trust works closely with Surrey Heartlands CCG to support delivery of the QIPP programme and there is a joint medicines transformation programme to support the Guildford & Waverley ICP.
The Lead Pharmacy Technician for Transformation & High Cost drugs, will work as part of the Pharmacy Business & Transformation Team, and will play a pivotal role in:
- Identifying, developing and implementing a range of cost improvement, transformation and quality improvement projects both within the Trust and across the local healthcare system
- Improving and maintaining systems and processes for high quality data and maximising the pass through of PBR excluded drug spend to commissioners; ensuring close working with the informatics, contracts and finance teams to ensure accurate SLAM reporting
In undertaking this role, the post-holder will make a contribution to delivery of the Trust’s “True North” objectives; and the achievement of financial balance within the Trust and across the local healthcare system.
See the Job Description for full details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent Technician Registrant with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Supervisory or Management qualification
- Project or programme management qualification e.g. PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes or equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational training and experience
- Substantial post-qualification pharmacy experience
- Experience using hospital pharmacy systems
- Knowledge and experience of establishing and/or managing systems and processes for PBR excluded drugs
- Experience of designing and implementing cost improvement, quality improvement and/or transformation projects
- Understanding of background to, and aims of, national and local healthcare policy/guidance and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and priorities
- Specialist knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice as developed through experience and CPD
- Knowledge and experience of data analysis and interpretation of data
- Advanced computer literacy, particularly databases, Excel
- Experience of producing reports that meet the needs of end users
- Experience of supervision or line managing others
- Evidence of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups
- Previous experience of delivering training and education
- Evidence of activity in audit to improve practice
- Experience of developing policies, procedures, evidence based guidelines, shared care guidelines
- Current developments in pharmacy
- Knowledge of changes occurring in the NHS and how this impacts upon the role and its priorities
- Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations, based on deep tacit understanding and make decisions with limited information
Desirable criteria
- Experience in using JAC
- Contributor to at least one service development
- Knowledge and experience of commissioning processes
- Knowledge and experience of using Blueteq
- Knowledge and experience of audit methodology
- Experience of working with EPMA /EPR systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marta Wojcik
- Job title
- Appointing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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