Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist to join our team as a Band 8a Senior Pharmacist for Homecare and Home IV Services at Leighton Hospital.

This pivotal role supports the safe, effective, and cost-efficient delivery of medicines directly to patients in their homes, ensuring compliance with clinical and financial governance frameworks. You will work closely with the Lead Homecare Pharmacist to manage high-cost drugs, Patient Access Schemes, and Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services, while contributing to service development, audit, and education.

As a practicing clinical pharmacist and independent prescriber, you will also provide pharmaceutical care, including medicines reconciliation, therapeutic drug monitoring, and discharge planning. You’ll liaise with multidisciplinary teams across primary and secondary care to ensure seamless patient pathways and continuity of prescribing. This role offers the opportunity to influence service innovation, mentor junior staff, and contribute to national and regional forums.

If you are passionate about improving patient outcomes, driving service excellence, and leading change in homecare pharmacy, we welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

• Help to coordinate day-to-day management of homecare services across the Trust.

• Ensure compliance with governance frameworks and procurement legislation.

• Monitor KPIs, investigate incidents, and report findings to MDTs.

• Screen homecare prescriptions for safety, funding, and clinical appropriateness.

• Manage high-cost drugs and Patient Access Schemes with accurate data tracking.

• Liaise with commissioners and clinicians to ensure appropriate prescribing.

• Support OPAT service development and antimicrobial stewardship.

• Attend and contribute to weekly OPAT MDT meetings.

• Provide clinical pharmacy services on wards, including medicines reconciliation and care planning.

• Actively prescribe within scope to optimise patient outcomes.

• Train and supervise pharmacy and nursing staff in homecare and IV services.

• Lead audits, patient surveys, and contribute to policy development.

• Deputise for the Lead Homecare Pharmacist in forums and management tasks.

• Support recruitment, appraisals, and performance management of team members.

• Promote safe systems of work and compliance with infection prevention policies.

• Maintain professional standards and contribute to continuous service improvement.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff.

An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.