Head of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service for England
Employer:
NHS Jobs
Location:
Liverpool, L69 3GF
Pay:
£112,782.00 to £129,783.00 per year, £112782.00 - £129783.00 a year
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
No
Closing Date:
27/06/2026
About this job
The key aspects of this role will be to: Provide leadership and strategic direction for SPS in England. Lead and oversee functional delivery to ensure that SPS is deployed to meet the needs of patients, providers, commissioners and clinical and professional networks. Ensure that service requirements and key performance indicators are delivered and collated to enable oversight by the SPS contract management board. Manage the Chief of Staff of SPS, the SPS function Hub Leads employed in the Pharmacy Practice Unit, Liverpool. To include Medicines Use and Safety, Medicines Advice and Quality Assurance and Procurement. Lead the SPS Operational Group, comprising the Assistant Head of SPS and nominated leads from Medicines Use and Safety, Medicines Advice, Quality Assurance, Procurement and Website and Digital. Contribute to NHS England's Pharmacy Senior Management Team and interface effectively with the CPhO Pharmacy Advisory Group, Acute Providers' Pharmacy Advisory Group, ICB Chief Pharmacists Group and NHSE policy teams. Liaise with Regional Medical Directors, Regional Chief Pharmacists (or their equivalent) and regional pharmacy workforce leads on the equitable delivery of SPS across England. Liaise with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on the contribution of SPS to the work on professional standard sand the appropriate recognition of expertise in within the Society's faculty programme. To provide managerial oversight to the Pharmacy Practice Unit (Liverpool) to include Quality Control Northwest (QCNW) Liverpool. Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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