Senior Lead for Pharmacy Homecare Services - Maternity Cover

The Royal Berkshire; Reading; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in Reading is recruiting a Band 8A Senior Lead Pharmacy Homecare Services to drive leadership of pharmacy homecare medicines, ensuring safe, timely, and cost-effective provision for Trust patients in line with NHMC and RPS standards.

The post holder will oversee governance, performance, risk management and workforce planning across end-to-end homecare pathways, with delegated financial controls and contract oversight.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership for Pharmacy homecare medicines services.
• Ensure safe, timely, appropriate, and cost-effective provision of homecare medicines.
• Oversee governance, risk management and continuous improvement across homecare pathways.
• Manage workforce, contract administration and supplier performance.

Job description

PLEASE NOTE: INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

Band 8A Senior Lead Pharmacy Homecare Services We are looking for an experienced pharmacy leader-pharmacist or pharmacy technician, to join our team as Senior Lead Pharmacy Homecare Services.

• The post holder provides senior leadership for the Pharmacy homecare medicines services, ensuring safe, timely, appropriate, and cost-effective provision of homecare medicines for Trust patients in accordance with National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) and RPS standards and Trust governance frameworks.


• The role holds accountability for service performance, clinical governance, risk management, and continuous improvement across end-to-end homecare medicines pathways, with delegated responsibility for workforce management, clinical pathway oversight, and defined financial controls.


• The post holder provides integrated oversight across homecare prescription management, clinical validation processes, contract administration, clinical governance, and supplier performance, ensuring consistent standards, clear escalation routes, and effective controls for patient safety, clinical appropriateness, contract compliance, commissioning alignment, medicines recalls, provider performance monitoring, and homecare service quality standards.


• The post holder works closely with senior pharmacy leaders, clinical teams, medical consultants, specialist nurses, commissioning colleagues, and corporate teams to maintain service resilience, provide clinical governance leadership for complex homecare pathways, deliver assurance to Trust governance structures, and optimize homecare medicines pathways for patients and the organization.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our \"CARE\" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Bilyana Doncheva Job title: Associate Chief Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0118 322 6970