Pharmacy Programme Manager - Medicines Automation
The closing date is 08 March 2026
We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead the Medicines Automation Programme at Aintree Hospital. Your work will directly improve patient safety, support clinical teams, and modernise how medicines are stored, accessed and managed across the hospital.
This role will oversee three key projects:
* Deployment of automated drug cabinets across all clinical areas
* Refurbishment of medicines rooms
* Clinical and digital change to support safer, more efficient medicines management
You will manage delivery across clinical, digital, and estates teams, ensuring strong governance, clear communication and timely implementation.
This role offers the chance to solve complex problems, coordinate diverse teams, and deliver a genuinely high-impact programme that will change daily practice for thousands of staff and patients.
If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy leading large-scale change and want to be at the forefront of digital medicines innovation, this programme offers the scope, visibility and challenge to make a real difference.
Main duties of the job
* Lead the full lifecycle of the medicines automation programme
* Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and external partners
* Oversee programme governance, reporting, risk management and benefits realisation
* Support clinical engagement, training, workflow redesign and digital adoption
* Ensure alignment with Trust priorities, including the future Electronic Patient Record
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Job responsibilities
Programme and Project Delivery
Lead multiple large, interrelated projects, ensuring clear plans, milestones, risks, and dependencies are managed throughout. Apply PRINCE2 and MSP methodologies to structure delivery and maintain high programme standards. Develop and maintain project documentation, business cases, benefits profiles, resource plans and progress reports. Ensure strong governance frameworks are in place to support decisionmaking and assurance.
Performance, Quality and Risk
Monitor progress against project initiation documents and business cases, adjusting plans as needed. Identify, evaluate and manage risks and issues, escalating concerns where necessary. Lead postimplementation reviews and lessons learned exercises to improve future programme work. Develop and track Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors across all programmes.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
Work closely with clinical teams, senior managers, service leads, digital teams and external partners to support safe and effective delivery. Provide regular updates to stakeholders and present programme information to a wide range of audiences. Support crossorganisational working, sharing best practice across departments and external NHS bodies.
Change and Benefits Realisation
Support business change activities, including workflow redesign and process improvement. Ensure programmes align with organisational strategy and deliver measurable benefits in productivity, quality, safety and compliance. Facilitate the transition of new services and technologies into business as usual.
Management and Leadership
Provide leadership to project staff and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective motivation, direction and communication. Manage performance, support staff development and contribute to the recruitment process. Oversee budgets associated with programme delivery, escalating cost pressures as required.
Professional Standards and Governance
Ensure compliance with local and national policies, including equality, diversity, confidentiality, infection prevention and information governance. Provide training within areas of expertise and support audit readiness internally and externally.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant first degree or equivalent
* Relevant advanced Diploma, other higher degree or equivalent A clinical, nursing or therapies qualification for those projects requiring clinical expertise
* Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation)
Experience
* Experience of working in a programme management environment
* Substantial experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects
* Substantial experience of using Microsoft Office applications
* Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
* Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
* Teaching and presentation skills
* Experience of delivering change management initiatives
* Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution
* Experience of working in a NHS environment
Knowledge
* A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care
Skills
* Ability to lead a team of diverse individuals to deliver programmes and projects to meet aims and objectives
* Thorough understanding of the benefits of using Programme management standards and the ability to adapt these to meet the requirements of the programme.
* Plan programmes and projects which impact across clinical and non clinical areas.
* Ability to manage independently and make decisions in line with organisational Strategy and objectives.
* Ability to check own and others work to ensure all products are of a high quality
* Ability to frequently concentrate for prolonged periods of time, managing interruptions as appropriate.
Other
* Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Experience of dealing with and communicating complex and contentious information
* Excellent negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
* Ability to persuade senior managers and frontline staff of the importance of the project or programme
* Ability to present programme and project management techniques and tools in a non technical format.
* Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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