Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety

Oxford University Hospitals; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a key member for their medicines safety team. The role involves implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology to improve the safety of medication use. Candidates should have experience in leading cross-functional teams and maintaining high standards of pharmaceutical care. This position offers opportunities for service development and research, ensuring effective communication within multidisciplinary clinical teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing smart infusion pump technology.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with clinical teams.
• Leadership skills within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimise smart infusion pump technology.
• Measure and monitor safety in medication use.
• Engage staff in the medicines safety agenda.

Job description

Job overview

In this post, you will be a key member of the medicines safety team, involved in dynamic workstreams focused on optimising and improving the safe use of medicines throughout the trust.

This role provides an opportunity to take a leadership role in the injectable safety workstream within the Medicines Safety team. The postholder will be involved in implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology across the trust. This includes designing and implementing drug-error reduction software, namely interpreting a range of resources to define clinical dosing parameters for drugs administered using smart infusion pumps in a range of clinical areas.

The role provides an opportunity to expand your expertise and skillset, to be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holder should maintain high standards of pharmaceutical care, ensure timely, effective communication with both the multi-disciplinary clinical teams and collaborators.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job are active involvement in implementing and optimising smart infusion pump technology across the Trust, learning from incidents and risks, measuring and monitoring safety to ensure the safest use of medicines, optimising processes and systems and engaging all staff in the medicine safety agenda.

Working for our organisation

OUHNHSFT is part of the acclaimed Shelford Group and is one of the largest teaching trusts in the UK. Our pharmacy department contains around multidisciplinary healthcare staff.

The medicines safety team is a multi-disciplinary team who aim to promote the safe use of medicines across the trust to improve safety for all our patients and help equip staff with the knowledge and expertise they need to use medicines safely.