Band 8b Regional Pharmacy Homecare Services Lead in Birmingham

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;
• 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.

Essential qualifications include:

• Bsc, BPharm, MPharm or equivalent in pharmacy;
• Postgraduate Masters Diploma in management or equivalent experience;
• Supply chain management training supplemented by additional specialist procurement courses or equivalent experience;
• Qualified as an independent prescriber;
• Leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience;
• Member of The General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable qualifications include:

• Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy.

Essential experience includes:

• Significant understanding of the NHS, wider homecare procurement and commercial strategies;
• Significant homecare experience in a management role;
• High level commercial relationships with the pharmaceutical industry;
• Significant experience & understanding and application of strategic sourcing methodologies;
• Experience in contract management, resolving queries and influencing people;
• Experience of team working delegation and empowerment;
• Experience of project managing complex pharmaceutical procurement activities from initial planning to contract award and monitoring;
• Experience of supplier relationship management;
• Experience of sourcing, mapping and managing the supply chain;
• Track record of ability to deliver against targets;
• Experience of delegated authority under Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs);
• Significant and advanced homecare services knowledge;
• Knowledge of contract law and dispute resolution;
• Ability to undertake statistical and data analysis skills;
• Awareness of key pharmaceutical markets including homecare services market;
• Understanding of trust clinical and financial governance systems;
• Awareness of Government and DH procurement strategy;
• Understanding and use of IMS, Define, Pharmex and ePACT data sources.

Additional criteria include:

• Ability to critically evaluate programme information and its methodologies, economics, clinical challenges (working with multidisciplinary teams);
• Interpret complex spreadsheets and data to inform trusts on strategies and benefits;
• Ability to manage large, complex projects in a collaborative, inclusive and focused leadership style;
• Ability to interpret complex information and evidence-based data;
• Ability to manage multiple procurement contracts to ensure best value for money;
• Ability to manage, influence, lead and empower people;
• Ability to manage and prioritise workloads to meet deadlines and keep within agreed timeframes;
• Ability to manage high levels of workload, multiple complex programmes and projects;
• Strong persuasive, negotiating and influencing skills;
• Ability to develop networks and facilitate focus groups with multidisciplinary stakeholders;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• High level verbal and written communications skills;
• Excellent presentation skills;
• Highly developed analytical skills -- able to review complex processes and recommend appropriate changes to improve efficiency;
• Willingness to implement new concepts;
• Ability to travel across the West Midlands region and Nationally.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.