Administrator - Pharmacy Homecare

Royal Pharmaceutical Society; Preston; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Preston, PR2 9HP is seeking an Administrator for Pharmacy Homecare and High Cost Drugs on a permanent, full-time basis. The role involves supporting communication with pharmacy teams, patients, and service users, and ensuring safe homecare service delivery.

Responsibilities include maintaining quality governance, enabling training and development, and contributing to service improvements and financial targets within the department.

Responsibilities

• Communication - Communicates all relevant information and advice to the pharmacy, nursing and medical teams, patients and service users as required.
• Service Delivery - Supports the department to provide a safe and high quality homecare service.
• Team work - Develops positive relationships and acts as a role model within homecare and pharmacy.
• Learning and Development - Maintains competence and completes mandatory training.
• Quality and Governance - Ensures compliance with medicines legislation and safety standards.
• Service Improvement - Contributes to the department's service plan and developments.
• Financial management - Supports the department to achieve financial balance.

Job description

Administrator - Pharmacy Homecare and High Cost Drugs

Company: NHS Jobs

Salary: from £25,272 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Preston, PR2 9HP

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 17 Sept 2026

Closing date: 22 Sept 2026

Summary

• Communication - Communicates all relevant information and advice to the pharmacy, nursing and medical teams, patients and service users as required.
• Service Delivery - Supports the department to provide a safe and high quality homecare service in line with the Professional Standards for Homecare Services (Royal Pharmaceutical Society).
• Team work - Contributes to effective team working within homecare and across pharmacy. Acts as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation. Develops positive relationships with internal and external key personnel. Becomes familiar with and complies with legal and organisational requirements, standards and codes of practice on equality, diversity, discrimination and rights relevant to own role and responsibilities.
• Learning and Development - Maintains and develops own competence and seeks to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice, policies and legislation. Completes mandatory Trust training and any other relevant mandatory training requirements.
• Quality and Governance - To contribute to ensuring the quality of homecare services. To comply with current legislation, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards. To ensure compliance with medicines legislation. Proactively manage risk and maintain safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Service Improvement - Contribute to the delivery of the Department Service plan and developments.
• Financial management - Support the department to deliver targets and achieve financial balance.

• Communication - Communicates all relevant information and advice to the pharmacy, nursing and medical teams, patients and service users as required.
• Service Delivery - Supports the department to provide a safe and high quality homecare service in line with the Professional Standards for Homecare Services (Royal Pharmaceutical Society).
• Team work- Contributes to effective team working within homecare and across pharmacy. Acts as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation. Develops positive relationship's with internal and external key personnel. Complies with legal and organisational requirements, standards and codes of practice on equality, diversity, discrimination and rights relevant of own role and responsibilities.
• Learning and Development - Maintains and develops own competence and seeks to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice, policies and legislation. Completes mandatory Trust training and any other relevant mandatory training requirements.
• Quality and Governance - To contribute to ensuring the quality of homecare services. To comply with current legislation, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards. To ensure compliance with medicines legislation. Proactively manage risk and maintain safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, polices, procedures and guidelines.
• Service Improvement - Contribute to the delivery of the Department Service plan and developments.
• Financial management - Support the department to deliver targets and achieve financial balance.