Lead Pharmacist High-Cost Drugs and Homecare
| Posting date: | 17 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2025 |
| Location: | Worthing, BN11 2DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-25-2153 |
Summary
This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria. The postholder will provide professional, and operational leadership for the Trusts High Cost Drugs and Homecare Pharmacy Services, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently, and in accordance with national standards and regulatory frameworks. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management, governance, and development of homecare services across all Trust sites, ensuring medicines are procured, supplied, and monitored in a way that safeguards patients and delivers value for money. This includes leading service transformation to streamline processes, enhance automation and digital tools, and strengthen clinical and financial governance. Key responsibilities include: Managing homecare provider contracts and service-level agreements, ensuring performance, quality assurance, and compliance with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Homecare Standards. Supporting commissioning and recharging processes for high-cost drugs, ensuring accurate data capture, validation, and reporting in collaboration with Finance and NHS England/ICB teams. Providing expert pharmaceutical advice to clinicians and service leads on the safe and effective use of high-cost and homecare medicines. Leading and developing the homecare pharmacy workforce, ensuring staff are supported, trained, and equipped to deliver high-quality services. Driving service improvement initiatives that reduce waste, increase treatment capacity, and enhance patient experience. Ensuring that incidents, complaints, and clinical risks within homecare and high-cost drug services are appropriately investigated, reported, and acted upon in line with Trust governance processes. Collaborating with regional homecare networks, suppliers, and commissioners to influence best practice and innovation. Deputising for the Lead Pharmacist for High Cost Drugs, Business, Homecare and Procurement where required, contributing to Trust-wide medicines efficiency, governance, and strategic planning. This role has a direct and significant impact on service delivery and patient safety, ensuring continuity of treatment for thousands of patients who rely on homecare and high-cost medicines. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring that University Hospitals Sussex remains compliant, efficient, and at the forefront of safe, patient-focused pharmacy practice.