Pharmacy Procurement Lead

Job summary

This Band 6 role leads the pharmacy procurement and finance function at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, ensuring medicines are purchased, stocked, and financially managed safely, efficiently and in line with national contracts and Trust policies.

Main duties of the job

Procurement: Order and manage stock of all medicines for both hospital sites, maintain accurate stock levels, resolve supply issues, action drug alerts, liaise with suppliers, and ensure compliance with contracts and SOPs. Finance: Reconcile invoices, authorise appropriate price changes, manage credits, resolve pricing discrepancies, support payment processes, and maintain accurate financial records. Management: Lead and supervise the procurement and finance team at the Alexandra Hospital, manage staffing and performance, provide training, support recruitment, and ensure service delivery. Operational/Technical: Undertake dispensary duties including dispensing, accuracy checking, interpreting prescriptions, and counselling patients when required. Governance & Professional Standards: Maintain GPhC registration, uphold Trust values, follow health and safety, infection control, confidentiality, and risk management requirements

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

• Date posted: 27 May 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: C9365-26-0410
• Job locations: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom, The Alexandra Hospital, Woodrow Drive, REDDITCH, Worcestershire, B98 7UB, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Supporting the Countywide Procurement and Homecare Patient Services Manager in the procuring of all medicines and associated products used by the Trust, the pharmacy department and supplied to other Trusts (circa £71m per year) using the pharmacy computer system (predominately via the Powergate portal) and the Trusts Stores Procurement System. This must be in line with the Trusts Standing Financial Instructions and the MPSC and Health Trust Europe (HTE) contracts and framework agreements

Ensuring the correct quantity of all medicines and associated products required are ordered and stocked at both the AH and the WRH sites.

Leading, motivating and managing the team of pharmacy procurement and finance staff at the AH ensuring they actively and effectively contribute to the aims of the service, are trained and assessed as competent and are aware of the expectations of them.

Supervising, training and co-ordinating the activity of staff allocated, which may include Pharmacy Assistants, newly recruited Technicians, FYT pharmacists and other trainees.

Ensuring goods received notes and invoices for medicines and associated products are processed correctly within the necessary timescales and, reconciled with orders placed using the Pharmacy Computer System. Invoices must be correctly cleared for payment and payment correctly authorised.

Authorising price increases when it is appropriate to do so.

Leading investigations of queries with suppliers regarding stock availability, delivery and pricing.

Accounting for charge notes being raised for debtors.

Ensuring any stock outs or potential stock outs that cannot be resolved by the procurement team are rapidly and effectively escalated to the Countywide Procurement and Homecare Patient Services Manager or higher.

Effectively and promptly, action any Shortages and Drug Alerts according to the departmental procedures escalating when required.

Safely interpret prescriptions for discharge, inpatients and outpatients.

Accurately, safely and promptly label, assemble and issue prescriptions for inpatients, discharge and outpatients.

Counsel patients on their take home medicines to assist patients in obtaining the most from their medicines.

Professionally screen requisitions for medicines from ward or clinical areas, confirming discrepancies and liaising with ward staff to ensure medicines are dispensed accurately and promptly according to ward need.

Undertake the final accuracy, check on dispensed medicines prior to issue to patients.

Please see full Job Description attached in the advert.

Please get in contact with Deb Hill for enquiries.