Medication Safety Officer

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT; Prestwich; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Medicines Safety Officer to lead medication safety across multiple care groups. The role includes clinical responsibilities and managing a Medicines Safety Pharmacy Technician. The ideal candidate will have GPhC registration and experience in staff supervision and medication safety practices.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience supervising staff and conducting incident investigations.
• Strong knowledge of mental health therapeutics and clinical governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the medication safety agenda across the organization.
• Ensure consistent updates of investigations or medication errors.
• Disseminate lessons learned from incident investigations.

Skills

Leadership in medicines safety

Incident investigation

Multidisciplinary working

Educating patients and carers

Mental health therapeutics

Education

GPhC registration

Job description

The Medicines Safety Officer post is an exciting and rewarding post a part of our multi-disciplinary Medicines Safety Team.

This post-holder will provide leadership in medicines safety for two of our Care Groups as well as line management for one of our Medicines Safety Pharmacy Technicians.

The post holder will be a key stakeholder in the Trust's Safe Use of Medicines Plan and a contributing member ensuring its success.

There will also be a clinical component to the role where there will be an expectation to contribute to the clinical services for our patients.

Main duties of the job

• To act as GMMH Medicines Safety Officer
• To lead all aspects of the medication safety agenda across GMMH
• To ensure consistent updating of investigations or medication errors
• To act as an expert specialist medication safety pharmacist
• To disseminate lessons learnt from incident investigations to identify medication safety issues from national guidance and embed into clinical practice
• To lead & co-ordinate the Medication Safety Group

About us

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• GPhC registered

Experience

• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of incident investigation
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience in educating patients and carers
• Expert knowledge of mental health therapeutics
• Training root analysis
• Experience of digital risk management

Knowledge

• Have knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
• oKnowledge of primary and secondary care, prescribing and medicines management

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.