Band 8b Regional Pharmacy Homecare Services Lead

We are seeking an exceptional pharmacy leader to take on a unique, high-profile role shaping homecare medicines services across the West Midlands. This is a rare opportunity to influence practice at both regional and national level, chairing the Regional Homecare Leads Network, representing the region on the National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC), and working directly with NHS England's Medicines Value Programme and the Collaborative Procurement Hub.

You will be the trusted expert advisor to Trust Chief Pharmacists across the region, leading on complex procurement, contract negotiation and service governance, while ensuring patients receive safe, high quality, cost-effective homecare medicines services. With genuine autonomy and a broad remit spanning strategy, policy development, and stakeholder influence, this role offers the chance to make a tangible national impact on how homecare services are delivered.

Joining University Hospitals Birmingham means joining a Trust building healthier lives through being Kind, Connected and Bold and this post sits right at the heart of an evolving, high priority national agenda around homecare medicines value and governance. If you're a strategic, commercially astute pharmacy leader ready for a genuinely influential regional role, we want to hear from you., As Regional Pharmacy Homecare Services Lead, you will provide expert oversight of homecare medicines services across the West Midlands, ensuring they meet national standards (Hackett report, RPS Homecare Standards) and deliver safe, high quality, patient centred care.

Core deliverables include reviewing and re-tendering regional homecare contracts with the Collaborative Procurement Hub; negotiating high-value supplier relationships; auditing regional homecare KPIs using Pharmex, Define, ePACT and IMS, producing reports for Trust Chief Pharmacists, NHS England and the Regional Homecare Medicines Group; developing homecare medicines strategies and annual work plans; and leading investigation of incidents and patient safety concerns.

Day-to-day, you'll advise Trusts on complex commercial, contractual and clinical homecare queries, chair the Regional Homecare Leads Network, represent the region on the NHMC, support training for pharmacy procurement staff, and build relationships with NHS England, industry bodies and Trust pharmacy teams.

We're looking for a pharmacist (GPhC registered) with significant homecare and procurement experience, strong commercial acumen, advanced analytical skills, and the confidence to negotiate at senior regional and national level. Excellent communication, sound judgement under pressure, and a collaborative approach are essential.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.