Medication Safety Officer and Governance Lead

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Medication Safety Officer and Governance Lead, London

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Client:

Whittington Health NHS Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

10

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to play a pivotal role in Medicines Safety and Clinical Governance across Whittington Trust.

Are you up for the challenge in building excellence?

Are you passionate about working with a wide range of healthcare processionals to promote a positive safety culture? If so, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for an experienced Pharmacist with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge, excellent communication skills and a strive for excellence.

The post holder will be expected to forge strong professional relationships across the trust and be responsible for the leading on patient safety and clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines management including Controlled Drugs. They will be pivotal in the ongoing development and delivery of the trust medication safety programme.

The post holder will need to have the ability to work with a wide range of multidisciplinary teams and be a key member of a number of groups and committees concerned with patient safety internally as well as externally.

This role requires a zeal for professionalism, and a genuine drive to help patients by evaluating clinical risks and critical incidents. You will be working to provide practical clinical solutions, to support and change patients' lives for the better.

We look forward to taking these next steps of this journey with you!

Apply today.

Main duties of the job

For more information relating to the main duties of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information relating to the main duties and responsibilities of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• MPharm (or equivalent)
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Membership of the RPS and relevant professional clinical group (e.g. UKCPA)
• Independent prescriber

Skills & Abilities

• High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases.
• Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
• Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
• Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
• Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
• Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Good problem-solving & numeracy skills
• Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments
• Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
• Good understanding of the role of medication safety & clinical governance within the acute setting and how this supports patient care
• Good working knowledge of clinical governance and medicines management issues
• Relevant clinical experience from working in areas linked to General Medicine
• Suitable experience of working in an acute hospital setting
• Appropriate knowledge of the legal requirements when dealing with and processing Controlled Drugs
• Experience as a line manager
• Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and policies
• Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
• Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical supervisor.
• Experience of conducting medicines management audits and producing action plans and reports, based on data
• Experience of coordinating drug recalls and clinical alerts
• Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting
• Experience of conducting medication error investigations and producing action plans linked to service improvement
• Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects
• An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy
• Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities
• An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting

PErsonal Qualities

• Reliable, Self-motivated
• Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team
• Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post.
• Commitment to continuing personal development.
• Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
• Ability to articulate their own leadership style

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.