Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group Assistant
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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group Assistant
The closing date is 16 November 2026
Job summary
The Medicines Effectiveness Team are excited to announce a fantastic opportunity to join the newly established Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group. This innovative team, alongside the Medicines Effectiveness Team, will play a pivotal role in driving cost-saving initiatives across biologic medicines while ensuring that patients continue to receive the highest standards of care.
The Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group will focus on identifying, promoting, and implementing strategies to maximise cost-saving opportunities for both commissioners and the Trust. By evaluating and optimising biologic prescribing and usage, the team will ensure that value for money is achieved across the healthcare system, while maintaining clinical effectiveness and safety.
As a member of this dynamic team, you will work collaboratively with clinical and financial stakeholders, including prescribers, pharmacists, commissioners, and procurement teams, to identify areas where cost efficiencies can be made, particularly in the use of biosimilars and other biologic therapies. The post holder will be supporting clinical teams in all aspects relating to the mobilising of identified cost saving opportunities.
PLEASE NOTE: "no visa sponsorship available for this role"
Main duties of the job
Main duties include:
Provide high quality, professional and comprehensive administration support to the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group
Support Specialist Clinical Teams and Homecare Team with day to day administrative management of prescriptions and set up of new biosimilars or other cost saving initiatives as directed by the Best Value Medicines and Biologics Group.
Support pharmacists and technicians to deliver identified savings, helping with all administrative tasks associated with these switches
Maintain an accurate record of cost-saving initiatives and identified opportunities, their status, obstacles and timeline through the Cost Effective Use of Medicines (CEUM) tracker
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Details
Date posted
03 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157 a year Per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
321-CSS-8376227-B4
Job locations
OUH at Cowley
Unipart House
Oxford
OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Enthusiastic and Motivated
- Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex information with a wide range of pharmacy, nursing and medical staff (including presentations
- Excellent organisational skills and time management
- Good time management skills
- Can work independently and use initiative
- Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion
Desirable
- NHS experience
- Medical terminology knowledge
- Experience of understanding Procurement systems and processes
- Willing to travel between sites
- Medical terminology knowledge
- Experience in planning, organising and coordinating meeting
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Enthusiastic and Motivated
- Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex information with a wide range of pharmacy, nursing and medical staff (including presentations
- Excellent organisational skills and time management
- Good time management skills
- Can work independently and use initiative
- Understanding the need for confidentiality and discretion
Desirable
- NHS experience
- Medical terminology knowledge
- Experience of understanding Procurement systems and processes
- Willing to travel between sites
- Medical terminology knowledge
- Experience in planning, organising and coordinating meeting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
OUH at Cowley
Unipart House
Oxford
OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
OUH at Cowley
Unipart House
Oxford
OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Senior Medicines Effectiveness&Homecare Technician
Jay Martin
01865221835
Details
Date posted
03 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£28,392 to £31,157 a year Per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
321-CSS-8376227-B4
Job locations
OUH at Cowley
Unipart House
Oxford
OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
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