Job overview

To provide a leadership and clinical service to the High Cost Drug area with a focus on the use of biologic and biosimilar medicines in key therapeutic areas. Ensuring that processes for implementation and supply are aligned to  the appropriate NICE, commissioning and formulary criteria. To lead in ensuring the most efficient supply route is utilised involving homecare providers when necessary, and providing supervision, support and training to the high cost drug and homecare team in any associated clinical and operational needs.

Main duties of the job

1. To manage and develop the clinical services and delivery of all high cost and homecare medicines to SWB patients.
2. To deputise and support the lead pharmacist for High Cost Drugs & Homecare.
3. To ensure that appropriate clinical and governance arrangements (as set out in national standards for homecare services) are used for the delivery of all homecare medicines and high cost drugs.
4. Liaise with the Lead Pharmacist and Lead Technician for High Cost Drugs & Homecare, and other relevant members of the Pharmacy Management team to ensure that the operational services for high cost drugs and homecare are clinically appropriate, safe, efficient and responsive to patient need. 
5. Liaise with the Lead Pharmacist for High Cost Drugs & Homecare in the development and maintenance of a Homecare strategy. This includes leading on clinical and financial aspects of product switching to ensure best value for money for all procured homecare medicines. 
6. Supervise the team of pharmacists and medicines management technicians who are working within the High Cost Drugs & Homecare Hub.
7. Develop and maintain effective communication channels and relationships with lead consultants, managers, senior nurse specialists and others to effectively carry out the responsibilities of the post.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.