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About
We provide a full range of acute clinical services from Northampton General Hospital and Danetre Hospital in Daventry. We are a designated cancer centre and have recently invested in a number of additional specialist services, including in-patient renal services and interventional cardiology. All elective inpatients and emergency admissions are screened for MRSA. As part of our work to improve clinical outcomes we are taking part in a national patient safety programme and have invested in systems to capture patients views on the service we provide. We understand that sometimes a small change can make a big difference for patients.
Our whole focus is on improving the quality of care given to our patients. We see quality as encompassing the following elements:
Clinically effective services
Safe services
The best possible experience for patients
We also believe in involving others in what we do and celebrating success.
Homecare, High-cost Medicine Support Officer
Accepting applications until: 23-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 23-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Northampton General Hospital
- Address
- Cliftonville
- Town
- Northampton
- Postcode
- NN1 5BD
- Major / Minor Region
- Northamptonshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy - Homecare and High-cost Medicine
Job overview
Northampton General Hospital is an acute NHS trust with a highly respected pharmacy service. As a Trust, we pledge to provide the best possible care with patient safety and quality at the heart of all we do.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Homecare and High-cost Medicine Support Officer to join the team. The Homecare department has seen significant growth with over 2000 patients accessing homecare services across an array of therapeutic indications. The successful candidate will be working closely with multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust to maintain current relationships by providing their expertise in ensuring a smooth transition of care for patients between hospital and homecare services.
The role will suit an innovative and progressive individual who will be fundamental in the development of department processes. They will be integrated within a team tasked with delivering on our responsibilities to ensure the cost-effective and appropriate prescribing of homecare medicines.
Subsequently, the expenditure of these medicines is captured by the team which is later submitted to the Finance department.
Previous homecare and high-cost medicine experience is desirable but full training will be provided.
If you are an enthusiastic, self-motivated, committed individual who is keen to develop your skills further then we would like to hear from you.
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The Homecare and High-cost Medicine (HCM) Support Officer will be accountable for the maintenance and accuracy of databases including those that hold patient information.
Additionally, they will be the primary prescription checker on receipt / collection of homecare prescriptions and registration forms from clinical teams, checking for administrative discrepancies only.
The post-holder will also be the primary contact for queries relating to both prescriptions and invoices as we implement an escalation pathway.
The Homecare and HCM Support Officer will be responsible for the daily completion of administrative tasks, such that the expectations of the department are maintained at a high-standard. This includes ensuring all prescriptions are added to checklists and sealed in envelopes, taking minutes for meetings with both Trust and external stakeholders and submitting complaints to homecare providers; recording the details via DATIX and the CAI log. This list is not exhaustive.
The Homecare and HCM Support Officer will work closely with the Pharmacy Data Analyst, producing reports on medicines expenditure as required by the Homecare and High-cost Medicine’s team in preparation for the Pharmacy Data Analyst and/or Homecare and High-cost Medicine’s team to analyse such reports.
The post-holder will ensure invoices are processed timely and subsequently homecare provider statements are up-to-date to ensure consistent accuracy of the above reports.
Working for our organisation
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To facilitate and coordinate the administrative tasks within homecare services
To supervise and train new members of the team
To generate a prescriptions-due report by accessing homecare provider online portal
To prioritise prescriptions, disseminating workload to relevant staff
To check prescriptions for administrative errors
To liaise with clinical teams, advising of changes in prescriptions that need to be amended when reviewing for administrative errors
To ensure most up-to-date homecare paperwork is followed
To support Advanced Pharmacy Technician in undertaking periodic review on information maintained on shared folder to ensure this is kept up-to-date
To prepare and send prescriptions to homecare providers, inc. completion of checklists, scanning and recording of special delivery envelope tracking numbers
To raise orders and issue medicine to the patient (virtually) using pharmacy system
To release patient specific orders (PSO), providing an authorised signature for financial processing
To maintain the homecare patient database, ensuring accuracy of patient numbers per drug per indication
To respond and resolve queries raised by clinical teams in an appropriate and professional manner
To follow up the progress of prescriptions, managing patient expectations for expected medicine delivery timeframes
To maintain good working relationships with multidisciplinary teams
To manage the day-to-day duties of homecare, ensuring the department is compliant with local policies and procedures
To attend and participate in service review meetings to discuss homecare financial matters
To minute monthly department meetings
To effectively deal with patient complaints in the first instance, referring them to the Advanced Pharmacy Technician and/or homecare company as required and to record and report complaints on the CAI log and DATIX if required
To liaise with the Pharmacy Homecare team to develop and maintain a system to monitor Homecare activities
To manage financial processes relating to homecare medicines
To assist the department in providing performance and business management services
To analyse and produce monitoring and assurance reports such as savings related to homecare services for commissioners.
To manage and develop the invoicing process
To access homecare portals to retrieve invoices
To accurately check invoices and liaise with credit control teams within homecare company to resolve discrepancies
To process credits and invoices using pharmacy system within agreed deadlines, checking prices and contract details
To enter data onto purchase order system
To manage an invoicing log for the purposes of audit
To produce medicines usage reports, accessing SQL and/or HIVE to support financial reporting at month-end
To produce cost-benefit reports, identifying current and potential savings if patients switch to a better-value medicine
To prepare raw data for financial reports using HIVE
To liaise with pharmacy administration teams on invoices passed for processing
To analyse homecare provider statements, ensuring payments are up-to-date and liaising with finance on discrepancies in payment and outstanding remittance
To arrange and chair regular meetings with homecare provider financial teams to ensure timely payments by Trust
To coordinate and monitor the patient prescription approval process
To identify patients receiving high-cost treatment using MediViewer/PCS/Discharge letters
To submit a Blueteq form retrospectively in relation to high-cost medicines
To identify patients who have received treatment without a valid Blueteq via medicines transactions report and to resolve the issue to submit aforementioned form
To liaise with clinical teams, instructing them of prescriptions due
To identify if prescriptions are too early and to liaise with relevant clinical team
To liaise with the High-cost Medicines Pharmacist / Advanced Pharmacy Technician to monitor use of medicines to ensure compliance with NICE guidance and commissioning policies
To notify clinical teams of the requirement for the patient to obtain recent bloods as identified
To highlight prescriptions to the Advanced Pharmacy Technician, Homecare and High-cost medicine where prescriptions do not conform to service level agreement (SLA)
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That’s why we talk about Team NGH. It’s all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courageous
- Accountable
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In submitting an application form, you authorise Northampton General Hospital to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority Transfer process should you be appointed to the post.
Due to the high number of applications received we are unable to respond to each application individually. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful in this application.
For further information on nursing, apprenticeships, A&E or any other departments please visit our specific website or pages that are indicated on the right hand side of this advert.
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE VACANCIES PRIOR TO THE ADVERTISED CLOSING DATE WHEN WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF SUFFICIENT APPLICATIONS
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- 4 GCSEs at grade C or above
Desirable criteria
- Completion of relevant data analysis courses (certificate awarding) eg Data Analysis, Microsoft Excel
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience equivalent to NVQ Level 3
- Recent hospital experience
- Computer skills, e.g. databases, Excel
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of contracts, negotiation skills and contract management eg through short courses
- Experience of prescription interpretation and homecare medicines management
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of the principles of homecare management
- Good understanding of homecare medicines services and can articulate reasons for their purpose within the NHS
- Good understanding of homecare medicines/finance relationship
- Awareness of homecare medicines funding
- Awareness of how incidents happen
Miscellaneous
Essential criteria
- Comfortable working with VDU for significant periods of time
- Ability to concentrate for significant periods of time when dealing with invoices, statements and prescriptions
- Excellent communication, written and oral
- Ability to prioritise
- Ability to work alone and as a team member
- Enthusiasm
- Confidence
- Positive about the future development of homecare
- Willingness to learn and develop personally
- Innovative
Desirable criteria
- Staff supervision
- Audit
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ben Powell
- Job title
- Advanced Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01604 637000
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