Government Affairs Manager

This role will be a part-time or full time, home based role.

Do you want to lead on proactive campaigns? Are you comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck in? Do you want to build relationships with an array of internal and external stakeholders? Being a Government Affairs Manager here at LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare means more than just managing our external operating environment, you will positively impact the lives of our patients across the UK. Providing your expertise to enhance our reputation and support the growth of our business.

As the Government Affairs Manager here at LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, you will lead on stakeholder management, policy tracking, formulating our input to the policy making process, and collaborating on, and leading, proactive campaigns to support our corporate strategic objectives. You will work with senior leaders to develop, manage, and deliver a public affairs strategy to support strategic business objectives through trade associations and membership organisations including Government bodies, regulators, thoughts leaders and ministers.

Your duties will involve but are not limited to; adopting a strategic campaigning approach to raising the profile and understanding of our business, identifying tactical opportunity to improve brand positions, keeping the business up to date with political and policy changes and acting as a key liaison with our membership organisations.
Why LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare?

As a public-affairs professional, you will have demonstrable experience of delivering public and government relations programmes ideally within a regulated environment. You will have a successful track record of engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders, including government members. You will have a thorough understanding of the parliamentary process and experience of tracking and influencing legalisation. Ideally, you will understand media relations including delivering integrated communications programmes and that change of enhance the way our organisation is perceived by political and corporate audiences.

LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare are one of the most experienced providers of clinical homecare in the UK and have been supporting patients in this way since 1975. We provide care to more than 100,000 patients in their own home, at work, or in the community, ranging from straightforward delivery of medication to specialist nursing for complex conditions. We work in partnership with the NHS, pharmaceutical companies, and private medical insurers. Our range of treatments and conditions includes home parenteral nutrition, chemotherapy, IV antibiotics, enzyme replacement therapy, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and much more.

We are defined by our ICARE values and we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity & inclusion, taking a person-centred approach to our interview process that is fair and free from both discrimination and bias. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our resourcing team.

We have a lot to offer at LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, not only to the 100,000 patients we support but also to our employees. In addition to the standard benefits that you would expect; 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, company pension, bonus scheme, we offer:

• Private health insurance


• Market leading maternity, paternity and adoption leave


• Full support from our employee assistance programme including a health and well-being app


• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays


• Company bonus scheme


• Outstanding training & development programmes


• Up to £1200 refer a friend bonus


• Savings and discounts at multiple retailers through our rewards portal